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This song, because of its exaltation of Brazil's great qualities, marked the creation of a new genre within samba, known as samba-exaltação (exaltation samba). This musical movement, with its extremely patriotic nature, was seen by many as being favorable to the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, generating criticism towards Barroso and his work, which was perceived as Barroso's prostration to ...
This is a list of composers who are either native to the country of Brazil, are a citizen of that nation, or have spent a major portion of their career living and working in Brazil. The list is arranged in alphabetical order:
Ary Barroso with Walt Disney in Brazil (1942). Born on 7 November 1903, Ary Barroso was the most influential pre-bossa nova composer in Brazil.Barroso's songs were recorded by a lengthy list of artists including Carmen Miranda and João Gilberto.
Jobim's musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Among his teachers were Lúcia Branco and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a German composer who lived in Brazil and introduced atonal and twelve-tone composition in the
Alberto Nepomuceno (1864–1920), classical musician and composer; Alexandre Levy (1864–1892), classical composer, pianist and conductor; André da Silva Gomes (1752–1844), classical musician and sacred music composer
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Heitor Villa-Lobos [a] (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". [1] Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. [2]