Almeida Prado

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José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado (born February 8, 1943 in Santos , State of São Paulo , Brazil , † November 21, 2010 in São Paulo ), better known under the short name Almeida Prado , was a Brazilian composer and pianist.

Life

Almeida Prado began taking piano lessons at the age of seven. Later, at the age of ten, he took lessons from Dinorah de Carvalho and Maria José de Oliveira , later also from Camargo Guarnieri - a well-known Brazilian composer - and from the French composers: Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger . His works have been influenced by Heitor Villa-Lobos , Osvaldo Lacerda and Gilberto Mendes , among others . Today there are more than 400 compositions by him in many forms: orchestral music, chamber music, piano music, guitar music.

In 1964 he wrote his first orchestral music: Variações para piano e Orquestra (1963), and also began his career as a music teacher at the Municipal Conservatory of Santos. With VIII Variações Sobre um Tema do Rio Grande do Norte: Aeroplano Jahu (1965) and also with Paixão Segundo São Marcos (1967), he won awards from the APCA (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte). In 1969 with Pequenos Funerais Cantantes (1968) he won the first Guanabara Prize (Prêmio da Guanabara). With it he traveled to Paris, where he lived for four years; in addition there was a short stay in Darmstadt with György Ligeti and Lukas Foss . He won numerous other prizes.

In 1975 he worked as director of the Municipal Conservatory Cubatão-Musikhochschule and from 1975 to 2000 as a lecturer at the Institute of Art of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). In 1974 he began to compose his most important work: Cartas Celestes (1974–2001). The 14 Cartas Celestes are his best known and most successful works.

literature

  • COSTA, Régis Gomide, Os momentos de Almeida Prado: laboratório de experimentos composicionais, Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música: 1998. Dissertação (Mestrado).
  • FRAGA, Elisa Maria Zein, O livro das duas meninas de Almeida Prado: uma outra leitura, Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música: 1995. Dissertação (Mestrado).
  • HASSAN, Mônica Farid, A Relação texto-música nas canções religiosas de Almeida Prado, Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música: 1996. Dissertação (Mestrado).
  • LOPES, Adriana da Cunha Moreira, A poética nos 16 Poesilúdios para piano de Almeida Prado: análise musical, Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música: 2002. Dissertação (Mestrado).
  • PRADO, José Antônio R. De Almeida, Cartas Celestes: uma uranografia sonora geradora de novos processos composicionais. Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música: 1986. Tese (Doutorado).
  • YANSEN, Carlos Alberto Silva, Almeida Prado: Estudos para Piano, aspectos técnico-interpretativos, Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Música: 2005. Dissertação (Mestrado)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SP: pianista José Antônio de Almeida morre aos 67 anos Terra , November 21, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Prado, Almeida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Almeida Prado, José Antônio Rezende de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Santos , State of São Paulo , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2010
Place of death São Paulo