Eleazar de Carvalho

Eleazar de Carvalho ( born June 28, 1912 in Iguatu, Ceara, † 12 September 1996 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian composer and conductor.

Life

De Carvalho was sent by his father to the Naval Academy, where he played in various orchestras tuba. From 1928 he studied music in Rio de Janeiro and played in the Banda dos Fuzileiros Navais. Later he left the Navy, studied conducting with Francisco Mignone at the Music School of Rio de Janeiro and became an assistant to Eugen permanent stand at the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira.

In 1945 he went to the USA and became a student of Sergei Koussevitzky at Tanglewood. As his assistant - next to Leonard Bernstein - he conducted in 1947 for the first time the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Later he represented the diseased Charles Munch with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, and in 1951, after the death Kussewizkis, he became his successor as head of the Berkshire Music Center.

He also served for ten years, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, with which he gave more than 1000 concerts. After his departure from Tanglewood, he headed from 1968 to 1973, the New York Pro Arte Symphony Orchestra. His teaching, he continued at Washington University, Hofstra University, the University of Tampa, the Juilliard School of Music and Yale University, where he received the title of professor emeritus. Among his pupils were such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, David Wooldridge, Harold faberman and Charles Dutoit.

Since the 1940s, de Carvalho was also active internationally as a conductor. He led, inter alia, the Berlin and Vienna Symphony Orchestra and made known the works of Brazilian composers such as Heitor Villa -Lobos in Europe. From 1973 until his death he headed the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de São Paulo.

De Carvalho wrote alongside chamber works, among others symphonic poems and operas.

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  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Conductor
  • University teachers ( Yale )
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  • Born in 1912
  • Died in 1996
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