Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 Tietê, São Paulo – January 13, 1993 São Paulo) was a Brazilian composer.
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Name
He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he started his musical career he decided his first name was too pretentious and possibly subject to puns. So he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed himself M. Camargo Guarnieri. In 1948, he legally changed his name to Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, but continued to sign only the initial of his first name. (His brother was named Rossine, a Portuguese misspelling of Rossini.)
Life
He studied piano and composition at the São Paulo Conservatório, and subsequently worked with Charles Koechlin in Paris. 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 the Coral Paulistano choir. His œuvre comprises symphonies, concertos, cantatas, two operas, chamber music, many piano pieces, and over fifty canções.
Works
Opera
- Pedro Malazarte (comic opera in one act, libretto by Mario de Andrade, premiered in May 1952 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
- Um homem só (tragic opera in one act, libretto by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, premiered on November 29, 1962, at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
Orchestral
- Symphonies
- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 2
- Symphony No. 3
- Symphony No. 4
- Symphony No. 5
- Symphony No. 6
- Abertura Concertante
- Abertura Festiva
- Suite Vila Rica
Concertante
- Piano
- Piano Concerto No. 1
- Piano Concerto No. 2
- Piano Concerto No. 3
- Piano Concerto No. 4
- Piano Concerto No. 5
- Piano Concerto No. 6
Chamber/Instrumental
- Violin Sonatas
- Violin Sonata No. 1
- Violin Sonata No. 2
- Violin Sonata No. 3
- Violin Sonata No. 4
- Violin Sonata No. 5
- Violin Sonata No. 6
- Violin Sonata No. 7
Books
- Flavio Silva: Camargo Guarnieri - O tempo e a musica. Fundacion Nacional de Arte-Funarte. 2001.
- Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: Livro - O Tempo E A Musica Editora: Imesp. 672 p. 2001 ISBN 8575070096
- Marion Verhaalen: Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian Composer. Indiana University Press. 2005.
External links
- Brief biography in the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (1994), Oxford University Press, via Gramophone
