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This study describes the history of piano music in Brazil such as the first appearence of pianos in the country during the beginning of the 19th century, the history of its importation, the emergence of domestic production and how the instrument became popular. After the second part of the 19th century, millions of immigrants came to Brazil, including large number of foreign pianists and piano teachers. They started to introduce professional music education into the country. The aim of this study is to reveal the emergence and development of brazilian professional piano playing and pedagogy, the appearance of the first Conservatory and piano faculty, as well as the first representatives of the national performing school. Much of this work is dedicated to the most important national composers and the characteristics of their piano compositions.
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Born in 1976 in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Lilian Tonella started her studies in piano at the age of 7. In 1984, she entered Piracicaba Music School where she won prizes in the following national competitions: VII Paulo Giovanni Competition, XI Competition of the Brazilian Musical Youth, I Poços de Caldas Competition, Arão Sahm Competition and V Governador Valadares Competition. At the age of 14 she had a solo debut with orchestra. She followed master classes with such teachers as Miguel Proença, Fany Solter, Marco Antonio de Almeida (Brazil), Rudolf Kehrer (Russia), Ludmila Lazar (Yugoslavia), Carlo Bruno (Italy), Klauss Frank (Germany), Angela Tosheva (Bulgary) and Yuri Slesariev (Russia). In 1994 she entered the University of Sao Paolo, Faculty of Communication and Art and graduated with honors in piano under Prof. Gilberto Tinetti. In 1996 she won a scholarship from the Intermedice Company to study at the State Academy of Music, Sofia (Bulgary) in the class of the Prof. Viktor Chouchkov. In 1998, she received a scholarship by Brazilian Ministry of Public Education for her Post-Graduate studies at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow, where in 1999 and 2001 she obtained her Masters and Doctoral degrees with Prof. Natalia Trull and Aleksandr Semetsky (a student of E. Gilels). In the same year, she started work on her Doctoral papers in Musicology on “Willy Correa de Oliveira’s piano production”, under adviser Vladimir Petrovich Chinaev. Ms. Tonella began her recording activities in 2003 with Callisto label, releasing `Virtuoso`, a CD of 19 th century virtuoso fantasies for piano and flute. In 2004, `Willy Correa de Oliveira piano musics` was relesed for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. She had performed in the international festival “Stars of the XXI Century” as soloist with the Samara State Orchestra, under the direction of M. Mihael Sherbakov, in Russia, and the III Mersin International Festival, in Turkey. In 2009, Tonella received the title of Associate Professor and currently works in the piano department at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN 10 1456559575
- ISBN 13 9781456559571
- BindingPaperback
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