Alberto Nepomuceno occupies an important position as a
pioneer of Brazilian music, indebted to his teacher
Fonseca, and active in his encouragement of the young
Villa-Lobos. A period in Europe brought study in
Berlin, lessons with the organist Guilmant in Paris,
contact with Brahms and significantly with Grieg, one
of whose pupils became his wife. Distinguished in his
career in Brazil as a teacher, conductor and composer,
he wrote in a musical language that owed much to
contemporary European tra...(+)
Alberto Nepomuceno occupies an important position as a
pioneer of Brazilian music, indebted to his teacher
Fonseca, and active in his encouragement of the young
Villa-Lobos. A period in Europe brought study in
Berlin, lessons with the organist Guilmant in Paris,
contact with Brahms and significantly with Grieg, one
of whose pupils became his wife. Distinguished in his
career in Brazil as a teacher, conductor and composer,
he wrote in a musical language that owed much to
contemporary European tradition. (source: naxos.com)
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