Name Hans-Joachim Koellreutter | Role Composer | |
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Died September 13, 2005, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
Hans joachim koellreutter tre pezzi per pianoforte 1945 1965 1977
Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a composer, teacher and musicologist.
Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany. He lived in Brazil from 1937 and became one of the country's most influential musicians.
In Brazil Koellreuter taught many prominent composers, including Gilberto Mendes, Claudio Santoro, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Denis Mandarino, Jayme Amatnecks, Arthur Kampela and many others. He brought the theory of atonal music to Brazil, creating the group "Musica Viva" and inflating the debate between the "Nationalists" and "Serialists". While the former group believed in the use of folklore material for the development of their compositions, the latter believed that the more rational approach of the European school was the path to truly contemporary works. This debate played a central role in the esthetic developments of Brazilian classical music throughout the 20th Century.
He died in São Paulo, Brazil, aged 90.