Dinorá de Carvalho

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Dinorá de Carvalho
Dinorá de Carvalho
Dinorá de Carvalho
Background information
Born(1904-06-01)June 1, 1904
Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died28 February 1980(1980-02-28) (aged 75)
São Paulo, Brazil
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Pianist, Composer

Dinorá Gontijo de Carvalho (1 June 1904/5 – 28 February 1980) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer.

Life[]

Dinorá de Carvalho was born in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and began her study of piano at the Conservatorio Musical in São Paulo at age six with and . She made her debut as a pianist at age seven playing Mozart and Mendelssohn, and later studied with Isidor Philipp in Paris on a Ministry of Culture scholarship. She continued her studies in Brazil with , , and Camargo Guarnieri.[1]

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[]

  1. ^ MacAuslan, Janna; Aspen, Kristan (1997). Guitar music by women composers: an annotated catalog.
  2. ^ "Portal Musica Brasilis - Dinorá de Carvalho timeline".
  3. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Brazilian Musicians". Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Composer: Dinorá Gontijo de Carvalho (1895-1980)". Retrieved 12 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
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