Jorge Antunes (composer)

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Jorge de Freitas Antunes (born 23 April 1942) is a Brazilian composer

of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Antunes entered the
Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1959 where he studied
violin.[1] He went on to earn Master of Music degrees in both violin and composition from
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Doctor of Music in electroacoustic music
from the University of Paris (1977).[2]

Contents

 1Biography
 2Selected works
o 2.1Opera
o 2.2Chamber music
 3References
 4External links

Biography[edit]
In 1973, Antunes became a professor at the University of Brasilia. He directs the
Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music and teaches Composition and Musical Acoustics.

Selected works[edit]
Opera[edit]

 Contato (1968)
 Vivaldia MCMLXXV, chamber opera buffa (1975)
 Qorpo Santo, opera in three acts (1983)
 O rei de uma nota só (The Single-tone King), mini-opera in four scenes (1991)
 A borboleta azul (The Blue Butterfly), mini-opera in two acts (1995)
 Olga (composed 1987–97, premiered 2006)
Chamber music[edit]

 Mascaruncho for two violas (1977)

 Microformóbiles I for viola and piano (1970)
 Modinha para Mindinha (Tune for Mindinha) for seven violas (1985)

References[edit]
1. ^ Ricardo Lorenz; Gerardo Dirié (1995). Scores and Recordings at the Indiana University
Latin American Music Center. Indiana University Press. p. 77.
2. ^ David M. Cummings (2000). International Who's Who In Music and Musicians' Directory:
(In the Classical and Light Classical Fields). Psychology Press. p. 19.