Luciano Gallet was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian composer, conductor and pianist.

He began piano playing as a school boy, and first studied and graduated in architecture, before enrolling at the Instituto Nacional de Música to study music with Henrique Oswald

Henrique Oswald

Henrique Oswald was a Brazilian composer and pianist whose work fell into disfavor after the "Semana de Arte Moderna" manifesto. Oswald's father was a Swiss-German immigrant and his mother from Italy. The family name was changed from "Oschwald" due to concerns of discrimination...

, Abdon Milanez and Agnelo França. In 1917, he studied harmony with Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

. In 1922, he started to conduct the choir and the orchestra of the Instituto Nacional de Música and in 1926 he became publisher of the music magazine Weco. In 1930 he was one of the founders of the Associação Brasileira de Música and became Director of the Instituto Nacional de Música.

Works

Orchestra Music

• Tango-batuque (1919)
• Moderato e allegro (1920)
• Suite bucólica (1920)
• Elegia (1921)
• Dança brasileira (1925)
• Toca-zumba (1926)
• Suspira, coração triste (1927)
• Xangô (1929)
• Pai do mato (1929)
• Suite popular (1929)

Chamber Music

• Turuna (1926)
• Suite sobre temas negro brasileiros(1929)

Sonatas

• Berceuse (1917)
• Caxinguelê (1917)
• Doze exercícios brasileiro (1928)
• Elegia (1918)
• Romance n. 1 (1918)
• Romance n. 2 (1918).

Songs

• Le sonnet d’Arvers (1918)
• Alanguissement (1918)
• Canção dolente (1918)
• A Partida (1919)
• Suspira, coração triste (1921)
• A Vida (1922)
• Olhos verdes (1922)
• Fotorototó (1924)
• Ai, que coração (1924)
• Foi numa noite calmosa (1925)
• Maxixe (1925); Tutu-marambá (1927)
• Marcha, soldado (1927)
• Atirei um pau no gato (1928)
• Carneirinho, carneirão (1928)
• Xangô (1928)
• Deux chansons de Bilitis (1920)
• Toada (1922)
• Sertaneja (1924)
• O Luar do sertão (1924)
• Toca-sumba (1926)

Church Music

• Ave Maria n. 1 (1918)
• Padre Nosso n. 2 (1918)
• Três cantos religiosos (1919)
• O Salutaris (1920)
• Si quaeris miracula (1926)

External links

• Academia Brasileira de Música at www.abmusica.org.br Short biography in Portuguese