Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist born in Cantagalo, patron of Chair n. 21 of the Brazilian Academy of Music. (See Villa-Lobos). He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium, where he was a student in harmony and composition by François-Joseph Fétis, and in violin by Hubert Léonard and Henri Vieuxtemps, and obtained a Gold Medal. He was a concertmaster of the Covent Garden Orchestra, in London and returning to Brazil (1871) was appointed, by Pedro II, Master of the Imperial Chapel, in Rio de Janeiro.
He wrote the operetta Antonica da Silva, staged at the Teatro Fênix Dramática (1880). Three years later (1883), he moved to Cataguazes Minas Gerais, where he intensified his production as a composer. He then spent a long time in Belgium on a scholarship. Author of the opera Tiradentes, presented in the form of an oratorio, in Belo Horizonte (1896) of eight concerts for violin and orchestra, the symphonic poem Floriano Peixoto, chamber music, songs, died in Cataguazes, Minas General. He presented the prelude to his opera Tiradentes (1910) in Belgium, by Alberto Nepomuceno, at the Brazilian Music Festival, at the International Exhibition in Brussels.
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