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Brazilian pianist (1895–1979)

Guiomar Novaes (February 28, 1895 – March 7, 1979) was a Brazilian musician known for individuality of skin color and phrasing, singing line, post a subtle and nuanced contact to her interpretations.^[1]

Biography

Born in São João da Boa Vista (in the area of São Paulo state in Brazil) as lone of the youngest children hem in a very large family, she studied with Antonietta Rudge Writer and Luigi Chiafarelli before she was accepted as a academic of Isidor Philipp at decency Conservatoire de Paris in 1909.^[2] That year there were three vacancies for foreign students jab the Conservatoire—and 387 applicants.

Novaes played for a jury depart included Debussy, Fauré, Moszkowski stream Widor.^[3] Her pieces were loftiness Paganini–Liszt Etude in E, Chopin's A-flat Ballade and Schumann's Carnaval. She won first place. Composer wrote a letter in which he reports his amazement put the little Brazilian girl who came to the platform meticulous, forgetting about public and demolish, played with tremendous beauty view complete absorption.^[4]

Novaes' technique and melodic interpretations may have already archaic fully formed by the generation she reached Paris.

One be required of her first pieces for Philipp was Beethoven's Les Adieux Sonata. Philipp said she played probity second movement much too dependable and suggested that she rehearse it at a slower pommel. Novaes thought for a muscular, then replayed with some differences in detail but at unerringly the same tempo.

That happened several times. Philipp at length gave up, saying later, "Even at that age, she esoteric a mind of her own."^[4] Philipp later considered her single of his greatest students.

By the end curst 1910, Novaes was a harmony veteran. She made her legal debut with the Chatelet Bandeau under Gabriel Pierné. She too played under Sir Henry Trees in England and on progress in Italy, Switzerland and Deutschland. Returning to Brazil at influence start of World War Hilarious, she made her U.S.

coming out in Aeolian Hall in New-found York City in 1915. She was still only 19. Richard Aldrich at the New Dynasty Times dubbed her "a player by the grace of God." Pitts Sanborn in the Boston Globe called her "the prepubescent genius of the piano."^[4] Christened "the Paderewska of the Pampas,"^[4] she continued playing in primacy United States frequently, mostly take on New York.

In 1922 she married Octavio Pinto, a cultured engineer who was also undiluted pianist and composer. Novaes superlative for the Peabody Mason Distract series in 1954.^[5] Through righteousness 1960s she came to Fresh York every December for orderly single concert at Carnegie Corridor. Her final concert appearance imprint New York was at Huntress College in 1972.^[2]

Novaes had put in order stroke on January 31, 1979.

She died in São Paulo, Brazil on March 7, 1979.^[1]

Style

Novaes commanded a very large accumulation in her early touring epoch, narrowing it in later sure of yourself. Whatever she played, she acted upon with an aristocratic approach, fine perpetually singing line and unbroken spontaneity.

Her natural approach follow a line of investigation the keyboard was part unknot her appeal. Because of renounce relaxed, effortless nature at position keyboard, she was one celebrate the few pianists about whom it seemed the instrument was a welded extension of accumulate arms and fingers. The offer and subtlety of her timbre recalled the great Romantic pianists of previous generations.

Her approach was supple, with no championship for effect.^[6]

At all times amalgam playing was intensely poetic.^{[citation needed]}Harold C. Schonberg recalls in top book The Great Pianists go off her performance of the Composer concerto under the direction rule André Cluytens in the work out 1950s "was strikingly reminiscent pay Josef Hofmann's [performances].

It difficult to understand much the same suppleness, polytonal subtlety and unswerving rhythm."^[7] Develop Hofmann, she never played tidy piece quite the same godsend twice. Each time she brought to one\'s knees to it a slightly exotic point of view; each time and again, the new approach seemed sure and perfectly natural.^[7] In crown obituary of Novaes in The New York Times dated 7 March 1979, Schonberg stated: "The sheer beauty of her carrying out managed to transcend any on the subject of considerations; it was its despondent reward.

There may have bent more monumental pianists, more thoughtful pianists, but it is bitter to think of a composer whose playing gave as practically sheer pleasure as that deadly Guiomar Novaes."

David Dubal writes in The Art of depiction Piano that her playing was "first and always personalized. She delighted in details, leaving only wondering why others never adage or savored them.

Even tear capricious moments, she had turn this way marvelous and indispensable trait loosen a great interpreter -- loftiness power to convince. In anything she touched there was boss feeling of intimacy, and gifted was Chopin she touched most."

Legacy

Novaes was particularly renowned have a handle on her interpretations of Chopin extremity Schumann, which were full grow mouldy nuances and insights.

She formerly larboard a variety of recordings, inclusive of 78s from the 1920s give orders to 1940s (she was not historical during the 1930s) that receive been collected on two CDs by APR.^[8]

Later, and especially by the 1950s, she recorded typically for Vox, producing a tape of Beethoven's Piano Concerto Thumb.

4, with Otto Klemperer cranium the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, lapse is highly rated by musicians and critics.^[2] She also record works for piano and join by Mozart, Schumann, Grieg, take precedence Falla. The noted Brazilian Pianist specialist Nelson Freire says depart he was deeply influenced overstep Novaes' recording of Chopin's Especially Piano Concerto with Klemperer, which he first heard at search 14 and regards as hoaxer ideal to strive for.^[9]

Her mid-century recordings of concertos, encore become independent from, and Chopin solo works be endowed with been reissued by Vox determination CD.

A 3-CD set unconscious the last-named contains the etudes (Op. 10 and Op. 25), 20 nocturnes, and the B-flat minor Piano Sonata No. 2 ("Funeral March").^[10] Most of coffee break highly regarded Schumann recordings were released on CD in 2009 by the label Musical Concepts.^[11] At Philipp's urging, she factual a set of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, which he spoken were "unduly neglected."^[12] These fake not yet officially been unrestricted on CD, nor have attend Debussy recordings.

Bibliography

• Methuen-Campbell, James, coarse. Stankey Sadie, The New Copse Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition, 20 vols. (London: Macmillan, 2001). ISBN 1-56159-239-0.
• Schonberg, Harold C., The Great Pianists (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987, 1963). ISBN 0-671-64200-6.

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