Cláudio Santoro

Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro ( born November 23, 1919 in Manaus, † March 27, 1989 in Brasília ) was a Brazilian composer.

Santoro studied in Rio de Janeiro and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1939 he was teacher of composition at the Music Academy in Rio de Janeiro. From 1951 to 1953 he was music director in radio, 1962-1965 Professor at the University of Brasilia. Since 1970 he taught composition and conducting at the Musikhochschule Heidelberg -Mannheim.

He composed six ballets, fourteen symphonies and many other orchestral works, a violin and a cello concerto, two piano concertos, a concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano and strings, chamber music, sonatas, Sonatinas and Preludes for Piano an oratorio, a cantata, and numerous theater, film, radio and television soundtracks.

In 1952 he was in Vienna for the International Peace Prize of the World Peace Council for his work Canto de Amor e Paz