Dinorá de Carvalho
Dinorá de Carvalho | |
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Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
Died | 28 February 1980 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 75)
Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Pianist, Composer |
Dinorá Gontijo de Carvalho (1 June 1904/5 – 28 February 1980) was a
Life
Dinorá de Carvalho was born in
After completing her studies, Carvalho worked as a pianist, composer, conductor and music educator. She became the first woman member of the Brazilian Academy of Music and became the first woman Brazilian maestro, founding an all-woman orchestra, the Orquestra Feminina de São Paulo. In 1960, having composed about 400 works, Dinorá was invited by the Culture Ministry to go in a cultural mission around Europe, playing her compositions as well as other Brazilian composers.[2] Her work Missa Profundis received first prize for Best Vocal Work of 1977 from the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte. She died in São Paulo in 1980.[3][4]
Works
Carvalho composed for solo instruments, chorus, choir and orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano and orchestra, symphony orchestra, theater and ballet. Selected works include:
- A ti, flor do céu (Text: Theodomiro Alves Pereira)
- Acalanto (Text: Cleómenes Campos)
- Água que passa (Text: Paulo Lébeis Bonfim)
- Ausência (Text: Suzana de Campos)
- Bamboleia
- Banzo (Text: Menotti del Picchia)
- Berceuse (Text: José de Freitas Valle)
- Canção do embalo (Text: Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles)
- Canção ingênua (Text: Milton Vaz de Camargo)
- Carmo (in Estampas de Vila Rica) (Text: Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
- Coqueiro-coqueirá (Text: Volkslieder)
- Ê-bango-bango-ê (Text: Volkslieder)
- Epigrama número 9 (Text: Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles)
- Espelho (Text: Jandyra Sounis Carvalho de Oliveira)
- Ideti (Text: Dioscoredes dos Santos)
- Instantâneo do adeus (Text: Elza Heloísa)
- Menino mandú (Text: Volkslieder)
- Mosaico (Text: Geraldo Vidigal)
- Noite de São Paulo (Text: Guilherme de Almeida)
- Num imbaiá (Text: Volkslieder)
- O ar (Text: Paulo Lébeis Bonfim)
- O fogo (Text: Paulo Lébeis Bonfim)
- O pipoqueiro (pregão)
- Onde estás (Text: Alice Camargo Guarnieri)
- Pau-piá (Text: Volkslieder)
- Perdão (Text: Milton Marques)
- Pobre cego (Text: Volkslieder)
- Presença (Text: Jandyra Sounis Carvalho de Oliveira)
- Quem sofre (Text: Menotti del Picchia)
- Quibungo te-rê-rê (Text: Volkslieder)
- Quinguê-lê (Text: Volkslieder)
- Samaritana (Text: Paulo Lébeis Bonfim)
- São Francisco de Assis (in Estampas de Vila Rica) (Text: Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
- Sinal de terra (Text: Cassiano Ricardo)
- Sum-sum (Text: Volkslieder)
- Teu rosto azul (Text: Fúlvia Lopes de Carvalho)
- Uai ni-nim (Text: Volkslieder)
- Último retrato (Text: Maria A. Franquini Neto)
- Velas ao mar (Text: Alberto de Oliveira)[5]
References
- ^ MacAuslan, Janna; Aspen, Kristan (1997). Guitar music by women composers: an annotated catalog.
- ^ "Portal Musica Brasilis - Dinorá de Carvalho timeline".
- ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ^ "Brazilian Musicians". Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ "Composer: Dinorá Gontijo de Carvalho (1895-1980)". Retrieved 12 January 2011.[permanent dead link]