Mario Vieira de Carvalho

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Mário Vieira de Carvalho (born October 7, 1943 in Coimbra ) is a Portuguese musicologist and author. His research fields include a. Music sociology , music aesthetics , contemporary music and music of Portugal from the 18th to the 21st century.

Scientific career

Vieira de Carvalho studied law at the University of Lisbon until 1968. Between 1967 and 1990 he worked as a music critic. Vieira de Carvalho received research grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1980–1984), the DAAD (1992) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (1995). In 1985 he received his doctorate in musicology from the Humboldt University, Berlin. phil. Research stays at the Free University of Berlin (1992) and at King's College, University of London (1995) followed. As a visiting professor he taught at the Humboldt University , Berlin (2000), the University of Innsbruck (2001), the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2002) and the University of Minho, Portugal (2004). He is professor of music sociology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa . In 1997 he founded the CESEM - Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (Research Center for Music Sociology and Aesthetics) and is its chairman. He has been a member of the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon since 2008 and a board member of the European Music Theater Academy in Vienna since 2001.

Offices and memberships

  • Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (1998–2002).
  • 2005–2008 State Secretary for Culture of the Portuguese Government
  • Member of Research Committee 37 - Sociology of Arts - and Member of Research Committee 51 - Sociocybernetics - of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
  • Member of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the Portuguese PEN Club.

Awards

  • In 1986 he received the Liszt Medal of the People's Republic of Hungary.

Publications (selection)

He is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications and around a thousand press articles.

  • Para um dossier Gulbenkian, Lisbon: Estampa, 1974;
  • A música ea luta ideológica, Lisbon: Estampa, 1976;
  • Estes sons, esta linguagem, Lisbon: Estampa, 1978;
  • O essencial sobre Fernando Lopes-Graça, Lisbon, IN-CM, 1989;
  • Pensar é morrer ou o Teatro de São Carlos na mudança de sistemas sociocomunicativos, Lisbon: IN-CM, 1993;
  • Razão e sentimento na comunicação musical - Estudos sobre a Dialéctica do Iluminismo, Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1999;
  • Eça de Queirós e Offenbach - A ácida gargalhada de Mefistófeles, Lisbon: Colibri, 1999;
  • Thinking is dying: Social history of the Lisbon Opera House, Kassel / Basel / London, etc .: Bärenreiter, 1999;
  • Por lo imposible andamos ': A ópera como teatro de Gil Vicente a Stockhausen', Postage: Âmbar, 2005;
  • Pensar a música, mudar o mundo: Fernando Lopes-Graça ', Porto: Campo das Letras, 2006;
  • A tragédia da escuta - Luigi Nono ea música do século XX ', Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2007;
  • (as editor): Expression, Truth and Authenticity: On Adorno's Theory of Music and Musical Performance, Lisbon: Edições Colibri / CESEM - Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, 2009;
  • With Fernando Gil: A 4 mãos - Schumann, Eichendorff e outras notas, Lisbon: IN-CM, 2005;
  • Co-editor, alongside José Machado Pais and Joaquim Pais de Brito: Sonoridades Luso-Afro-Brasileiras, Lisbon: ICS, 2004;

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The board of directors univie.ac.at, accessed on August 1, 2012.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Vieira de Carvalho, Mário
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Coimbra