Antônio Carlos Gomes

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Brazilian composer. (b Campinas, 11 July 1836; d Belém, 16 Sept 1896). He was the son of a provincial bandmaster, from whom he learnt the rudiments of music and to play several instruments. He began composing at an early age and at 18 wrote a mass that was performed in a local church by the Gomes family ensemble. In 1859 he went on a concert tour with his brother Sant’Ana Gomes and had considerable success with his Hino acadêmico in São Paulo. He then left for Rio de Janeiro against his father’s will and entered the Imperial Conservatory of Music, where he studied composition under Joaquim Giannini. The conservatory experience reinforced his predilection for opera, and he soon became acquainted with the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi, whose music exerted a profound influence on him throughout his career. In 1860 two of his cantatas attracted great attention. The Spaniard José Amat, then the musical director of the Ópera Lírica Nacional, gave him a copy of the libretto of A noite do castelo by Antônio José Fernandes dos Reis, which Gomes set to music and produced on 4 September 1861 at the Teatro Lírico Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro. The success of this and of his next opera Joana de Flandres (1863) prompted his nomination for a government scholarship to study in Italy, and in 1864 he began his studies with Lauro Rossi, director of the Milan Conservatory. Most of the rest of his life was spent in Italy and his compositional ideals became thoroughly italianized.

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Gomes: Il Guarany

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O Guarani (Abertura)

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Gomes: Lo schiavo (Live)

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Gomes: Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição

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O Guarani (Funky Version)

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Gomes: Il Guarany: Overture (Arr. for Harp by Paola Baron and Liuba Klevtsova)

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Gomes: Colombo

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Alberto Ginastera

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Anos Dourados, Vol. 5

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Match Point

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111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon

Il Guarany

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