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Maria de Lourdes Martins

Maria de Lourdes Martins (26 May 1926 – 31 August 2009) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. Life Maria de Lourdes Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Lisbon Conservatory teacher

Maria de Lourdes Martins (26 May 1926 – 31 August 2009) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. Life Maria de Lourdes Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Lisbon Conservatory teacher Maria Helena Martins. Martins studied at the Lisbon Conservatory with Abreu Mota, Macário Santiago Kastner and Marcos Garin where she would obtain degrees in piano in 1944, and composition in 1949. . She continued her studies in composition with and Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos. here she would learn about Orff-Schulwerk, a child centered music education approach which she would take to Portugal and introduce there. While in Munich she would meet Professor Genzmer who made her aware of the education program. Genzmer also made her aware of the Gulbenkian foundation which funded the Orff-Schulwerk program in Portugal. She would continue her education by acquiring a scholarship from the Gulbenkian foundation and would learn the Kodaly method in the country of Hungary.After completing her studies, Martins took a position teaching at the Lisbon Conservatory. She introduced the Orff-Schulwerk system from the Salzburg Mozarteum in Portugal, and won the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Composition

Era
Post-War
Lived
1926–2009
From
Portugal
Born in
Lisbon
Known as
composer, musicologist, music educator, pianist
Instruments
piano

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.