Ernst Mahle (3 January 1929 – 12 May 2025) was a Brazilian composer and orchestra conductor of German birth.

Life and career

Mahle was born in

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on 3 January 1929. He studied music with

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in Stuttgart before coming to Brazil in 1951, and then with

Hans-Joachim Koellreutter Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward, where he became one of the country's most infl ...

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. He became a Brazilian citizen in 1962. In 1953, he was one of the founders of the Escola de Música de Piracicaba. After teaching music there, he became artistic director and conductor of the orchestra and choir of the institute, holding these posts for more than fifty years. In 2005, Mahle composed the opera ''

O Garatuja ''O Garatuja'' is an opera composed by Ernst Mahle in 2005, with libretto written by Eugênio Leandro. The opera is based on the homonymous novel by José de Alencar (1873) and premiered in Piracicaba Piracicaba ( ) is a Municipalities of Br ...

'', libretto by

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. The opera was based on the homonymous novel by

José de Alencar José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, ...

, which was premiered on 27 April 2006, at the Teatro Municipal de Piracicaba "Dr Losso Netto". He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Music (chair no. 6). Mahle died in Piracicaba,

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on 12 May 2025, at the age of 96.

Works

* ''Marroquinhas Fru-Fru'' (1974) opera, libretto by Maria Clara Machado * ''

A Moreninha A Moreninha may refer to: * ''A Moreninha'' (novel), an 1844 novel by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo * ''A Moreninha'' (TV series), a 1965 Brazilian telenovela {{dab ...

'' (1979) opera, libretto by José Maria Ferreira * ''

'' (2006) opera, libretto by Eugênio Leandro * '' Isaura'' (2023) opera https://abmusica.org.br/noticias/ernst-mahle-compoe-a-opera-isaura-com-estreia-prevista-para-2023

References

Sources

* Paulo Affonso de Moura Ferreira: ''Ernst Mahle: Catálogo de obras'' (Brasília: Ministério das Relações Exteriores, 1976). * Eliane Tokeshi: "As sonatas e sonatinas para violino e piano de Ernst Mahle: Uma abordagem dos aspectos estilísticos", in ''I Seminário Nacional de Pesquisa em Performance Musical. III: Belo Horizonte, 2000'', edited by André Cavazotti, pp. 43–56 (Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2001); also constituting the journal ''Per musi: Revista de performance musical'' no. 3 (January–June 2001).

External links

Escola de Música de Piracicaba
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Classical Composers Database
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