Francisco Mignone

Francisco Mignone ( born September 3, 1897 in São Paulo, . † 18/19 February 1986 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer.

The son of an Italian flautist studied at the Conservatory of São Paulo flute, piano and composition and has already played at the age of thirteen years in various orchestras flute. A scholarship enabled him in 1920 to study at the Conservatory of Milan.

Under the pseudonym Chico Bororo he composed popular pieces that were taken partly under the guidance of his father on board. 1924 his first opera O Contratador de Diamantes was premiered in Rio de Janeiro. In 1929 he returned to Brazil. In 1933 he became the successor of Walter Burle Marx at the Instituto Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro.

Mignone composed symphonic works, six masses and an oratorio, opera and ballets, chamber music, and numerous Waltz for piano. Became famous for the congada from the opera O Contratador de Diamantes.

Works

• Sinfonia do Trabalho
• Maracatu do Chico Rei -
• Festa das Igrejas
• Leilão
• Alegria de Nossa Senhora, Cecília Meireles oratorio
• O Contratador de Diamantes, opera ( libretto by G. Bottoni by Afonso Arinos ), 1921
• L' innocente opera ( libretto by Arturo Rossato by Concha Espina ), 1927
• Maracatu do Chico Rei, ballet, 1933
• Leilão, Ballet, 1941
• Sugestões Sinfónicas, symphonic poem / Ballet, 1969
• O Chalaca, opera ( libretto by Humberto Mello Nóbrega ), 1973
• O Sargento de Milícias, opera ( libretto by Humberto Mello Nóbrega to Manuel Antônio de Almeida ), 1978
• Quincas Berro d' Agua Ballet ( by Jorge Amado ), 1979
• Valsa de Esquina

Swell

• Viva Brazil - Francisco Mignone
• Portal do fagote - CD " Com licença! " - Composers and Works
• Operone.de - Francisco Mignone

• Composer ( Brazil)
• Brazilian
• Born 1897
• Died in 1986
• Man