Ernesto Nazareth
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (20 March 1863 - 1 February 1934) was a Brazilian composer and pianist. He was one of the central figures in the piano music of Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the twentieth century, and his work helped shape the passage between nineteenth-century salon dance music and early urban Brazilian popular music.
His compositions are closely associated with maxixe, Brazilian tango and choro, and draw on polka, lundu, habanera and other dance forms, set within idiomatic piano writing shaped by his classical training.
Nazareth published many of his works as tangos, waltzes, polkas and other popular genres, but his music has remained in the repertory of pianists, choro musicians and scholars of Brazilian music. Works such as Brejeiro, Odeon, Apanhei-te, cavaquinho and Ameno Resedá became among his best-known compositions. He was later named patron of chair no. 28 of the Brazilian Academy of Music.
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