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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer.[1]
Guarnieri was born in Tietê,São Paulo. He studied piano, composition, and conducting in São Paulo and Paris. His compositions received significant recognition in the United States during the 1940s, leading to conducting opportunities in major American cities.
A key figure in the Brazilian national school, Guarnieri served as a conductor, a member of theAcademia Brasileira de Música, and Director of theSão Paulo Conservatório.[2] His extensive oeuvre includes symphonies, concertos, operas, chamber music, piano pieces, and songs.
Regarded by some as the most important Brazilian composer afterHeitor Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri was awarded theGabriela Mistral Prize shortly before his death.
Guarnieri was born inTietê, São Paulo, and registered at birth asMozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed himselfM. Camargo Guarnieri. In 1948, he legally changed his name toMozart Camargo Guarnieri, but continued to sign only the initial of his first name.
Guarnieri's Italian father, Michele Guarneri?, a lover of classical music, named one of Camargo's brothers Rossine (a Portuguese misspelling ofRossini), and two others Verdi and Bellini.[citation needed]
Guarnieri studied piano with Ernani Braga andAntonio de Sá Pereira [pt] and composition withLamberto Baldi [pt;de;es] at theConservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo. In 1938, a fellowship from the Council of Artistic Orientation allowed him to travel to Paris, where he studied composition and aesthetics withCharles Koechlin and conducting withFrançois Ruhlmann.[3] Some of his compositions received important prizes in the United States in the 1940s, giving Guarnieri the opportunity of conducting them in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. A distinguished figure of the Brazilian national school, he served in several capacities; conductor of the São Paulo Orchestra, member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório, where he taught composition and orchestral conducting. In 1936 he was the first conductor of theCoral Paulistano choir. His œuvre comprisessymphonies,concertos,cantatas, twooperas,chamber music, many piano pieces, and over fiftysongs. In 1972, inPorto Alegre, his compatriotRoberto Szidon gave the first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 4.[4] In 1962 theSoviet Union invited him to participate in the third Congress of Composers in Moscow.[5] Shortly before his death inSão Paulo in 1993, he was awarded theGabriela Mistral Prize by theOrganization of American States as the greatest contemporary composer of the Americas.
Missa Diligite for Chorus and Organ (1972)
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