Camargo Guarnieri

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 Tietê, São Paulo – January 13, 1993 São Paulo) was a Brazilian composer.

He studied piano and composition at the São Paulo Conservatório, and subsequently worked with Charles Koechlin in Paris. Some of his compositions received important prizes in the United States in the 1940s, giving Guarnieri the opportunity of conducting them in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. A distinguished figure of the Brazilian national school, he served in several capacities; conductor of the São Paulo Orchestra, member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório, where he taught composition and orchestral conducting. In 1936 he was the first conductor of the Coral Paulistano choir. His œuvre comprises symphonies, concertos, cantatas, two operas, chamber music, many piano pieces, and over fifty canções.

Works

Opera
Pedro Malazarte (comic opera in one act, libretto by Mario de Andrade, premiered in May 1952 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
Um homem só (tragic opera in one act, libretto by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, premiered on November 29, 1962, at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)

Orchestral
Symphonies
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Abertura Concertante
Abertura Festiva
Suite Vila Rica

Concertante
Piano
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 4
Piano Concerto No. 5
Piano Concerto No. 6

Chamber/Instrumental
Violin Sonatas
Violin Sonata No. 1
Violin Sonata No. 2
Violin Sonata No. 3
Violin Sonata No. 4
Violin Sonata No. 5
Violin Sonata No. 6
Violin Sonata No. 7