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Esther Scliar

Esther Scliar (28 September 1926 – 18 March 1978) was a Brazilian pianist and composer. Biography Esther Scliar was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil to Isaac and Rosa Scliar. Scliar

Esther Scliar (28 September 1926 – 18 March 1978) was a Brazilian pianist and composer. Biography Esther Scliar was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil to Isaac and Rosa Scliar. Scliar worked as a pianist and taught harmony, music theory, analysis, and composition at the Instituto Villa-Lobos and Seminários de Música Pró-Arte. In 1952 she studied choral conducting with Nilda Müller in Montevideo and founded and was the first conductor of the Choir of the Musical Youth Association of Porto Alegre. In 1966 she wrote the music for the movie The Loss of Mario Fiorani and received an award for “Best Song” at the Brazilian Film Week II. In 1952 she found she had contracted tuberculosis and in 1968 had a stroke, after which she left her position at Villa-Lobos Institute. Her father died in 1975, and she died by suicide at age 51 in 1978. Works Scliar’s compositions were often inspired by folk music. She composed about ninety works. Selected compositions include: *1950 Ao sair da Lua for chorus *1952 A pedrinha vai for chorus *1953 Vira a Moenda for chorus *1953 Dorme-Dorme for chorus *1953 Beira Mar *1953 Maracatu Elefante (after a melody by Capiba) *1953 Papagaio louro (text:

Era
Post-War
Lived
1926–1978
From
Brazil
Born in
Porto Alegre · died Rio de Janeiro
Known as
composer, pianist, musicologist, conductor, politician

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.