Augusto Machado (composer)

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Augusto Machado (1845-1924) in O Occidente (1900)

Augusto de Oliveira Machado (born December 27, 1845 in Lisbon ; † March 26, 1924 ibid) was a Portuguese composer , lecturer and theater director.

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Augusto Machado received his first musical training in Lisbon with Joaquim Casimiro and Emílio Daddi and later received lessons at the conservatory in his hometown. At a young age he went to Paris and studied with Albert Lavignac (1846–1916). In 1869 his ballet Zefireto was performed at the Teatro de São Carlos in Lisbon; a year later his operetta O Sol de Navarra was first performed at the Teatro de Trindade , but none of these events was a particular success. The composer disliked the predominant influence of Italian music in Lisbon, as did the influence of French-oriented literary circles. So he turned again to Paris and continued his studies with Lavignac and Adolphe-Léopold Danhauser (1835-1896). Here he also met the composers Jules Massenet and Camille Saint-Saëns , who had an influence on his compositional style. As a result of private problems he was forced to return to Lisbon, and he accepted a position as a singing teacher at the local conservatory; he was also director of this institution from 1901 to 1910.

For the Teatro da Trindade he composed several operettas and also the symphonic Ode Camões e os Lusíades on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of the national poet Luís de Camões (1524 / 25–1580); however, this work was never performed. Machado's first opera Lauriane, which premiered in Marseille in 1883 , was successful and saw further performances in 1884 at the Teatro de São Carlos in Lisbon and in 1886 at the Teatro Lírico in Rio de Janeiro . He wrote three more operas on libretti by Italian authors, which were performed at the Teatro de São Carlos, and he was also director of that theater from 1889 to 1892.

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Augusto Machado made several attempts to create a Portuguese national type of operetta, especially with the operetta Maria da Fonte, but it was not a lasting success. After his first opera Lauriane was performed in Lisbon, it seemed that a tradition of national opera might begin with him. However, his style was strongly influenced by French models, so that no national Portuguese opera emerged from it. Machado then returned to the prevailing Italian tradition with his later operas.

Works

  • Stage works
    • Zefiretto, ballet, first performed in 1869 Lisbon, São Carlos
    • O Sol de Navarra (Libretto: Alfredo Ataíe), operetta in three acts, world premiere in 1870 Lisbon, Trindade
    • A cruz de ouro (Libretto: Alfredo Ataíe / Rangel de Lima), operetta in two acts, world premiere in 1873 Lisbon, Trindade
    • O degelo (translated by Antero de Quental / Jaime Batalha Reis), operetta in three acts, first performance in 1875 Lisbon, Trindade
    • Os frutos de ouro (libretto: Francisco Palha / Cardoso Leoni), Mágica in three acts, first performed in Lisbon in 1876
    • A guitarra (Libretto: Eça Leal), comic opera in one act, first performed in 1878 Lisbon, Trindade
    • Maria da Fonte (Libretto: Gervásio Lobato / Jaime Batalha Reis / Eça Leal), operetta in three acts, first performed in Lisbon in 1879, Trindade
    • Lauriane (libretto: A. Guiou / Jean-Jacques Magne based on George Sands Les Beaux messieurs de Bois Doré ), opera in four acts, world premiere in 1883, Marseille, Grand Théâtre
    • Astrea, ballet, first performed in 1884 Lisbon, São Carlos
    • I Doria (libretto: A. Ghislanzoni based on Schiller's Fiesco ), drama lírico in four acts, first performed in 1887 Lisbon, São Carlos
    • Piccolino (Libretto: Eça Leal), comic opera in three acts, first performance in 1889 Lisbon, Trinidade
    • A leitora da Infanta (Libretto: Eça Leal), comic opera in three acts, first performance in 1896 Lisbon, Trinidade
    • Os filhos do Capitão Mór (Libretto: Eduardo Schwalbach), opera in three acts, first performance in Lisbon in 1896, Trinidade
    • Mario Wetter (libretto: Ruggiero Leoncavallo ), opera in three acts, world premiere in 1898 Lisbon, São Carlos
    • O tição negro (Libretto: Henrique Lopes de Mendonça), Farsa lírica in three acts, first performed in 1902 Lisbon, Avenida
    • O rapto de Helena (Libretto: Acácio Antunes), operetta in three acts, first performance in 1902 Lisbon, Avenida
    • Vénus (Libretto: Acácio Antunes), Pièce phantastique, first performance 1905 Lisbon, Dona Amélia
    • La borghesina (Libretto: Enrico Golisciani), opera in three acts, first performed in 1909 Lisbon, São Carlos
    • O espadachim do outeiro (Libretto: Henrique Lopes de Mendonça), comic opera in three acts, first performed in 1910 Lisbon, Trindade
    • Vida mundana, Revista, first performance 1914 Lisbon, Casa Abecassis?
    • Rosas de todo o ano (Libretto: Júlio Dantas), Comédia, first performance 1920 Lisbon, São Luís
    • A triste viuvinha (libretto after D. João da Câmara), operetta in three acts
  • Instrumental music
    • Camões e os Lusíades, ode sinfónica, 1880
    • various piano and organ works

literature

  • T. Borba / F. Lopes-Graça: Dicionário de música (ilustrado), Volume 2, Lisbon 1958, pages 155/56
  • P. Ribeiro: Lauriane ou Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré: métamorphose de l'oeuvre (du roman de Sand à l'opéra de Machado) - dramaturgy, poétique et sémiologie musicale, dissertation at the University of Paris VIII, 1995

Web links

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  1. ^ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 11, Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel and Basel 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7
personal data
SURNAME Machado, Augusto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machado, Augusto de Oliveira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese opera and operetta composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1924
Place of death Lisbon