Berta Alves de Sousa
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Berta Alves de Sousa was a Portuguese
pianist and composer.
, Belgium
. She grew up in Oporto, Portugal
and studied music under Moreira de Sa, Luis Costa
, Lucien Lambert and Claudio Carneyro at the Music Conservatory. She continued her studies in Paris
with Wilhelm Backhaus
and Theodore Szanto for piano and George Mingot for composition, and in Lisbon
with Vianna da Motta. She also studied orchestral conducting with Clemens Krauss
in Berlin
and Pedro de Freitas Branco in Lisbon.
After completing her studies, Alves de Sousa took a position at the Music Conservatory of Oporto in 1946 teaching chamber music, (she later became chair) and performed as a concert pianist, accompanist and conductor. She also worked as a music critic for the newspaper O Primeiro de Janeiro in Porto. In 1941 she won the Prix de Sa Moreira established by Orpheon Portuense. Alves de Sousa died in Oporto, and her papers are held by the Oporto Conservatory of Music.
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Selected works include:
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
pianist and composer.
Biography
Candida Berta Alves de Sousa was born in LiègeLiège
Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....
, Belgium
Belgium
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. She grew up in Oporto, Portugal
Portugal
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and studied music under Moreira de Sa, Luis Costa
Luis Costa
Luis Costa is an Angolan professional basketball player with Atlético Petróleos Luanda and the Angola national basketball team. He is in height and 93 kg in weight. He represented Angola at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and the FIBA Africa Championship 2007.-References:...
, Lucien Lambert and Claudio Carneyro at the Music Conservatory. She continued her studies in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue.Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire there with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private piano lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt...
and Theodore Szanto for piano and George Mingot for composition, and in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
with Vianna da Motta. She also studied orchestral conducting with Clemens Krauss
Clemens Krauss
Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss.-Biography:...
in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and Pedro de Freitas Branco in Lisbon.
After completing her studies, Alves de Sousa took a position at the Music Conservatory of Oporto in 1946 teaching chamber music, (she later became chair) and performed as a concert pianist, accompanist and conductor. She also worked as a music critic for the newspaper O Primeiro de Janeiro in Porto. In 1941 she won the Prix de Sa Moreira established by Orpheon Portuense. Alves de Sousa died in Oporto, and her papers are held by the Oporto Conservatory of Music.
Works
Alves de Sousa composed chamber music, choral music and symphonic works. She also experimented with Symmetry Sonora, a method developed by composer Fernando Corrêa de OliveiraFernando Corrêa de Oliveira
Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira was a Portuguese composer. Among his works are numerous pieces for orchestra, as well as a deal of chamber music; he also composed some vocal pieces and two operas, one of which, O Cábula, was the first Portuguese opera for children.-Reference:*...
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Selected works include:
- Abreu Albano
- Teixeira de Pascoaes
- Há no Meu Peito uma Porta (In My Chest there is a Door)
- Canção Marinha (Navy Song)
- Três Prelúdios (Three Preludes)
Discography
Selected recordings include:- Compositores do Porto do Séc. XX, Canto e Piano
- Numérica 1999, Sofia Lourenço, Compositores Portugueses Contemporâneos