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Radamés Gnattali (27 January 1906 – 3 February 1988) was a Brazilian composer of both classical and popular music, as well as a conductor, orchestrator, and arranger.
A Bela Adormecida by Isis De Oliv, Radamés Gnattali released in 1962. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Radamés Gnattali, a Brazilian composer of Italian descent, was born into a family of amateur musicians in Rio de Janeiro. Named after the eponymous heroine in Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida," he began studying piano from a young age and later mastered the flute, clarinet, and violin.
One of the main responsible for diluting the barriers between the erudite and popular in Brazil, Radamés Gnattali was a pianist, composer and an arranger. He performed in basically all fields, leaving a large artwork of symphonic and chamberistic music, besides being one of the most important Brazilian arrangers with at least five decades of ...
Radamés Gnattali. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1906, Radamés Gnattali was a prominent Brazilian composer who composed equally well in classical and popular music. His mother was a pianist and his father was an Italian immigrant who settled in Porto Alegre.
His music is the perfect fusion of the high and the low, of formally structured classical music and the vibrant multi-coloured folk culture of Brazil. The 4 Concertinos for guitar and orchestra are medium-sized, 3-movement works, highly entertaining and brimming with good tunes, groovy rhythms and brilliant instrumentation: a real discovery!
Study V by Radamés Gnattali (1906–1988), taken from his 10 Studies for Guitar, is a concise etude that pays homage to Brazilian folk music. Celebrating the viola caipira —a northeastern Brazilian guitar—the piece includes modern techniques such as percussion and pizzicato.
