José de Lima Siqueira
José de Lima Siqueira (born June 24, 1907 in Conceição , Paraíba , † April 22, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian conductor and composer.
Siqueira learned to play the saxophone and trumpet in his youth and played the trumpet in the Banda Sinfônica of the Escola Militar . From 1928 to 1930 he studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro with Francisco Braga and Walter Burle Marx . He has performed as a conductor in the United States, Canada, France, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Russia and founded the Orquestra Sinfônicas Brasileira (1940) and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Rio de Janeiro (1949). He also worked as a professor at the Universidade do Brasil . In 1945 he was one of the co-founders of the Academia Brasileira de Música (chair 8).
During a stay in Paris in 1953, he attended courses in musicology at the Sorbonne . He founded the Ordem dos Músicos do Brasil and was elected President in 1960. In 1961 he founded the Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional and in 1967 the Orquestra de Câmara do Brasil . In 1969 he was banned from teaching, publishing and conducting by the military dictatorship and went into exile in the Soviet Union. He worked there as conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and juror at international competitions.
Siqueira composed several works for the stage, three symphonies, three symphonic poems, three piano concertos, a cello concerto, chamber music works, three oratorios, a cantata and numerous songs. He has also published several music pedagogical and theoretical works, including Canto Dado em XIV Lições , Música para a Juventude (4 volumes), Sistema Trimodal Brasileiro and Curso de Instrumentação .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ José Siqueira. Academia Brasileira de Música, accessed April 19, 2018 (Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siqueira, José de Lima |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Conceição , Paraíba |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1985 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |