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Also known as Egberto Amin Gismonti

Brazilian musician and composer

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Academia de danças, 1974

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Film & TV

Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

  • O Barato de Iacanga — Self (archive footage)2019
  • Zuza Homem de Jazz — Self2018
  • Música para Sempre — Self1980
  • Paulo Moura1978

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1947-12-05
eric alexanderjazzjazz and blues

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Listeners
95,003
Total plays
1,212,250

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Egberto Amin Gismonti (born December 5, 1947 in Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple of Arnold Schönberg and Anton Webern. After his return to Brazil, Gismonti began to explore other musical genres. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Brazil
Place of birth
Carmo
Occupation
jazz musician
Languages spoken
English language
Student of
Nadia Boulanger
Field of work
music
Instrument
piano
Record label
ECM Records
Image
EgbertoGismontiBA.jpg
Number of children
2
Voice type
baritone
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date of birth
1944-12-05
start of work period
1969-00-00
Commons category
Egberto Gismonti
influenced by
Heitor Villa-Lobos
ancestral home
Lebanon
Sources (6)

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