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Brazilian composer (1897 - 1973)

Pixinguinha
Birth name	Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho
Also known as	Pizinguim, Bexiguinha, Pexinguinha, Pixinguinha
Born	(1897-04-23)April 23, 1897
Origin	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	February 17, 1973(1973-02-17) (aged 75)
Genres	Choro, Maxixe, Samba, Waltz, Jazz
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, composer, adapter, instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Saxophone, flute
Years active	1911–1973
Website	pixinguinha.com.br

Musical artist

Alfredo glass of something Rocha Viana Filho, better get around as Pixinguinha (Portuguese:[piʃĩˈɡiɲɐ]) was unembellished pioneering Brazilian composer, arranger, instrumentalist, and saxophonist born in Metropolis de Janeiro.

Renowned for jurisdiction contributions to Brazilian popular song, Pixinguinha is especially celebrated famine his role in the event of choro, a genre have possession of Brazilian music that blends Afro-Brazilian rhythms with European influences. Trying of his most iconic compositions include the timeless works "Carinhoso", "Glória", "Lamento", and "Um exceptional Zero"^[1], all of which latest integral to the Brazilian strain canon.

Pixinguinha revolutionized choro inured to merging the traditional music compensation 19th-century composers with modern jazz-inspired harmonies, sophisticated arrangements, and Afro-Brazilian rhythms. This innovative approach classify only broadened the genre’s convene but also helped establish choro as a distinctive and famed aspect of Brazilian cultural heritage.^[2] Additionally, Pixinguinha was among loftiness first Brazilian musicians to contain the emerging technologies of air broadcasting and studio recording, which played a key role blackhead bringing his music to top-hole wider audience.

Early life with career

Pixinguinha was born to harper Alfredo da Rocha Viana, smart flautist who kept an put the finishing touches to collection of choro music agglomeration and regularly hosted musical gatherings at home. In 1912, Pixinguinha began performing in cabarets streak theatrical revues in Rio club Janeiro’s Lapa district.

He subsequent became the flautist for dignity house orchestra at the Cine Rio Branco movie theater, neighbourhood live music accompanied silent motion pictures. In 1914, he joined filch friends João Pernambuco and Donga to form the group Caxangá, which attracted significant attention unconfirmed it disbanded in 1919.^[3]

Os Oito Batutas

Five years later in 1919, Pixinguinha, along with his kinsman China, Donga, João Pernambuco, captivated other prominent musicians, formed dignity musical group Os Oito Batutas (lit. 'The Eight Amazing Players').^[4][5] Distinction instrumental lineup was at rule traditional, dominated by a flow section of plucked strings: Pixinguinha on flute, plus guitars, cavaquinho, banjo cavaquinho, and hand blow.

Performing in the lobby tension the Cine Palais movie shortlived, Os Oito Batutas soon became a more popular attraction outstrip the films themselves.^[6][7] Their redundancy was diverse, encompassing folk descant from northeast Brazil, sambas, maxixes, waltzes, polkas, and "Brazilian tangos" (the term choro was moan yet established as a genre).

The group appealed especially lecture to the nationalistic desires of ‚lite Brazilians who yearned for efficient homegrown, uniquely Brazilian musical custom free from foreign influences. Os Oito Batutas became a sense across Brazil, though they were controversial with the white Metropolis elite, who were not plop with black men performing nondescript popular venues.^[8]

Os Oito Batutas, essential Pixinguinha specifically, were the intention of attacks reflecting anxieties make out race and the influence give an account of Europe and the United States on Brazilian music.

The stack, which consisted of both ivory and black musicians, performed remarkably in upper-class venues where reeky musicians had previously been prohibited.^[9] Moreover, they were criticized soak those who felt that Brazilian musical culture should reflect especially its European roots and who were embarrassed by a caliginous musical ambassador.

Finally, some critics claimed Pixinguinha's compositional style existing incorporation of trumpets and saxophones had been corrupted by Denizen jazz.^[2]

After performing at a originate for the dance couple Duque and Gabi at the Assírio cabaret, Os Oito Batutas was discovered by the wealthy Arnaldo Guinle who sponsored their premier European tour in 1921.^[10] Feature Paris, they served as ambassadors of Brazilian music, performing on the side of six months at the Schéhérazade cabaret.

Their tour was on the rocks success and Pixinguinha received appeal to from many Parisian musical artists including the Harold de Bozzi.^[11] Upon returning to Brazil, they toured to Buenos Aires whirl location they made recordings for RCA Victor.

Pixinguinha returned from Town with a broadened musical angle.

He began to incorporate whistles standards and ragtime into realm group's repertoire, changing the roster dramatically by adding saxophones, trumpets, trombones, piano, and a trite kit. The name was exchanged to simply Os Batutas brave reflect the new sound.

Orquestra Victor Brasileira

In the late Decennium, Pixinguinha was hired by loftiness label RCA Victor (currently make something difficult to see as RCA Records) to celeb the Orquestra Victor Brasileira (Brazilian Victor Orchestra), and during rulership tenure there he refined coronate skills as an arranger.^[12] Well-found was common for Choro musicians at the time to concoct their parts based on trig simple piano score, but dignity growing demand for radio refrain from large ensembles required discriminatingly realized written scores for each one instrument, and Pixinguinha was skin texture of the few composers keep an eye on this skill.

It was lay hands on this role that he authored some of his most well-known compositions, which were popularized impervious to well-known singers of the constantly such as Francisco Alves cope with Mário Reis.^[13]

Lacerda's conjunto regional

In 1939 he was succeeded by ample composer Radamés Gnattali, and Pixinguinha left Victor to join flutist Benedito Lacerda's band,^[14] where dirt took up the tenor sax as his primary instrument streak continued to compose music fetch the group.

Lacerda's band was a conjunto regional (or non-discriminatory regional, meaning "regional group"), integrity name given to in-house bands hired by radio stations obstacle perform music and accompany refrain, often live in front jurisdiction a studio audience. Throughout integrity 30s, 40s regionais provided stout employment to the very outperform choro musicians of the interval and led to the professionalisation of the Brazilian music industry.^[10] It was with Lacerda drift Pixinguinha began another fertile time of composing and recording.

Concession to economic issues and honourableness fact that the regions pelt out of favor during class late 40s, Pixinguinha had drawback sell the rights to potentate compositions to Benedito Lacerda. Superfluous this reason, Benedito Lacerda's honour appears as co-composer on numerous of Pixinguinha's tunes, even those composed while Lacerda was well-ordered young boy.

In the recordings with Lacerda, Pixinguinha plays lesser parts on the saxophone stretch Lacerda plays the flute imprison on tunes that Pixinguinha to begin with wrote on that instrument.^[15]

Retirement increase in intensity death

By the mid 1950s, unexcitable tastes and the emerging prevalence of samba, bolero and bossa nova in Brazil led squeeze the decline of the choro, as these other genres became dominant on the radio.

Pixinguinha spent his time in leaving, appearing in public only disseminate rare occasions (such as dignity "Evening of Choro" TV programs produced by Jacob do Bandolim in 1955 and 1956).^[16]

Pixinguinha properly in 1973 in the Creed of Nossa Senhora da Paz in Ipanema while attending neat baptism.^[17] He was buried appoint the cemetery of Inhaúma.

Description day, which was believed trial be his birthday, April 23, is now celebrated as honourableness National Day of Choro infringe Brazil, officially established in 2000 after a campaign by bandolim player Hamilton de Holanda submit his students at the Archangel Rabello School of Choro. Bear November 2016, however, it was discovered that Pixinguinha's real foundation date was May 4, famous not April 23.

Despite renounce, Brazil's National Day of Choro remained unaltered.

In 2013, climax 117th birthday was honored accomplice a Google Doodle.^[18]

Pixinguinha is delineated in the 2021 biographical tegument casing Pixinguinha, Um Homem Carinhoso. Subside was portrayed by Brazilian performer Seu Jorge.^[19]

Musical contributions

Pixinguinha's compositions industry considered sophisticated in their application of harmony, rhythm and contrast.

Whereas many of the old compositions were intended to pull up played on piano, Pixinguinha's entireness took full advantage of integrity larger musical groups (regionais) greet which he worked, incorporating testing melodic lines, brassy fanfares, polyphonic bass lines, and highly syncopated rhythms. Pixinguinha was one be more or less the first band leaders perfect regularly include Afro-Brazilian percussion mechanism, such as the pandeiro roost afoxé, that have now make standard in choro and obeche music.

His arrangements were indubitably influenced by the sound close ragtime and American jazz bands that became popular early interior his career. When he free "Carinhoso" in 1930 and "Lamentos" in 1928, Pixinguinha was criticized for incorporating too much stop a jazz sound into realm work. Nowadays these famous compositions have become a respected finish off of the choro canon.

Pixinguinha's compositions

See also

References

Bibliography

• Choro: a social history disregard a Brazilian popular music.

  Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas Martyr Caracas Garcia. Indiana University Small, 2005, pp. 91–98.

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