{"id":1649,"date":"2013-10-09T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2013-10-09T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:09:15","slug":"brazilian-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"He had two brothers, one named Verdi, the other Rossine, so it isn’t surprising that his parents had musical ambitions for Mozart Guarnieri<\/a>. In an act of self effacement (and probably to ward off unkind comments) he changed his name to M.Camargo Guarnieri (Camargo was his mother’s maiden name, and M. stands, of course, for Mozart).
\nHe is arguably the most important Brazilian composer after\u00a0Heitor Villa-Lobos<\/a>\u00a0having written 6 symphonies, 6 piano concertos and many chamber works.<\/p>\n

I had first come across him as one one of the composers in the collection Antologia per Chitarra<\/em> published by Ricordi<\/a> and edited by Abloniz – Manuel Barrueco played his Etude \"\"No.1 beautifully on an early recording<\/a>.
\nThis piece was dedicated to Isaias Savio<\/a>, genial educator and performer.\u00a0At that time Guarnieri had already composed\u00a0Ponteio\u00a0(1944) and\u00a0Valsa Ch\u00f4ro\u00a0(1954) for guitar solo.
\nIncidentally the Antologia is well worth getting hold of, as it contains, amongst other things original guitar pieces by Auric (one of Les Six), Poulenc, Petrassi, Sauget and Rodrigo.<\/p>\n

I was reminded of the composer when chatting to Fabio Zanon<\/a> at West Dean<\/a> this year, and have come across some other works and arrangements of his, which give a fairly rounded view of this important Brazilian composer’s work.<\/p>\n

First off, the \u201cBrazilian Guitar Quartet plays Camargo Guarnieri\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0playing arrangements of\u00a0Dan\u00e7a Negra, Valsa No.8 and Dan\u00e7a Brasileira<\/p>\n

Cello Concerto
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