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José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado or Almeida Prado (February 8, 1943 November 21, 2010) was an important Brazilian composer of classical music and a pianist.[1] On Almeida Prado's death, his personal friend, conductor João Carlos Martins stated that Prado had possibly been the most important Brazilian composer ever.[1]

José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado
José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado

Prado wrote over 400 compositions and won various prizes for his work.[1]

He was born in Santos, São Paulo in 1943. He died in São Paulo in 2010, having lived there for the latter part of his life.


Training


In Brazil, Almeida Prado studied with Dinorá de Carvalho (piano), Osvaldo Lacerda (harmony) and Camargo Guarnieri (composition).

Upon winning first prize for his cantata Pequenos Funerais Cantantes, based on a text by Hilda Hilst, at the I Festival de Música da Guanabara in 1969, he continued his studies in Europe. He studied with Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1970 to 1973, besides brief studies with György Ligeti and Lukas Foss in Darmstadt.


Professional Activities


Returning to Brazil in 1974, Almeida Prado first taught at the Conservatório Municipal de Cubatão, and then, hired by Zeferino Vaz, he became a professor at the UNICAMP Institute of the Arts, retiring in 2000. After his retirement he settled in São Paulo, where he occasionally taught music courses and presented a radio program at Cultura FM.

In January 2007, his cantata Hiléia, Um Mural da Amazônia, based on the poem of the same name by Ives Gandra Martins, was performed at Carnegie Hall by the Orquestra Bachiana Filarmônica de São Paulo conducted by João Carlos Martins.


Selected works


Orchestral
Concertante
Chamber music
Piano
Choral

Publications



Notes


  1. "Compositor e pianista Almeida Prado morre aos 67 anos". Folha (in Portuguese). São Paulo. 21 November 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.

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На других языках


[de] Almeida Prado

José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado (* 8. Februar 1943 in Santos, Bundesstaat São Paulo, Brasilien; † 21. November 2010 in São Paulo[1]), bekannter unter dem Kurznamen Almeida Prado, war ein brasilianischer Komponist und Pianist.
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