Mozart Camargo Guarnieri

Brazilian conductor and composer Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993) was the leading Brazilian composer of his time. The son of a father from Sicily and a Brazilian mother, he established himself as a musician of importance in São Paulo, before moving in 1938 to Paris for lessons with Koechlin. Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and 1960 director of the conservatory. In style he belongs to a third generation of Brazilian composers, after Braga and then Villa-Lobos, with national traits now fully absorbed into a mature and often passionate musical language.