The Classical Music Era in Brazil
An important factor for the changes in the musical life of the Brazilians was the arrival of the Portuguese of the household in Rio de...
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An
important factor for the changes in the musical life of the Brazilians was the
arrival of the Portuguese of the household in Rio de Janeiro in the year 1808,
and also then the Rio de Janeiro was musically similar to other cultural
centres of Brazil, and was even less important than Minas Gerias, but the
presence of the household fundamental changed to this cases.
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The
king John VI of the Portuguese brought to Brazil, the great musical library
from the House of Braganca which is one of the best of Europe at that period,
and ordered the arrival of musicians from the Lisbon and the castrati from Italy,
re-ordering the Royal Chapel. Later, King John VI ordered the making of a
sumptuous theatre, which is known as the Royal Theatre of Sao Joao. The secular
music had the presence of the Marcos Portugal, who was selected as the official
singer of the household, and of Sigismund von Neukomm, who helped with his own
work and brought the works of the Austrian singers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and
Joseph Haydn. The works of these singers strongly changed the Brazilian music
of this period.
Jose
Mauricio Nunes Garcia, who was the first of the great Brazilian music singers,
joined at this time. with a large culture for his origin and he was poor and
mulatto and he was one of the founders of the Irmandad de Santa Cecilia, in Rio
de Janeiro, and also the teacher and Kapellmeister of the Royal Chapel during
the presence of John VI in Brazil. The Nunes Garcia was the mainly creative Brazilian
singer of this period. He also sing the first opera written in with text in
Italian, but the music is now lost.
Other
significant singers of this time are Gabriel Fernandes da Trindade, who sang
the only Brazilian chamber music from the 19th century which has
lived to the present period, and Joa de Deus de Castro Lobo, who stay in the
cities of Mariana and Ouro Preto, which were corrupt at this period.
In
spite, the love of Peter I of Brazil for the music he was also the author of
some musical piece such as the Brazilian Independent anthem and the difficult
of financial situation did not allow many luxuries. The fire of the Royal
Theatre in 1824 was another symbol of corruption, which reached the most
critical point when Peter 1 left the throne which was going back to Portugal.
