Composer of the Month 2/2014: Ary Barroso
(selected by Peter van Dessel / Belgium)
Brazil 7.11.2003
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by Ary Barroso: "Brazil". The video was taken in 1997 during the recording for the album "Sympathique". |
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The Brazilian lawyer and sports reporter Ary Evangelista Barroso (born November 7, 1903 in Ubá, Minas
Gerais) was also one of the most popular Brazilian composers and singers of the 1940s and 1950s.
He studied classical piano and played as a youngster in various dance orchestras in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1930 he won the first prize in a song festival for the carnival and afterwards composed several
hundred marches, sambas and ballads for the carnival. A series of his compositions he wrote explicitly
for the singer Carmen Miranda.
His compositions established the subgenre of Samba Exaltação, a patriotic-enhancing version of Samba. In 1939 Barroso wrote his most famous title "Aquarela do Brasil", which was a worldwide hit in the abbreviated form as "Brazil". Ary Barroso died on 9 February 1964 in Rio de Janeiro. February 2014 is the 50th anniversary of his death. More composer can be found in the members only section |