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Guiomar Novaes
Brazilian pianist (–)
Guiomar Novaes (February 28, – March 7, ) was a Brazilian pianist known for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in São João da Boa Vista (in the area of São Paulo state in Brazil) as one of the youngest children in a very large family, she studied with Antonietta Rudge Miller and Luigi Chiafarelli before she was accepted as a pupil of Isidor Philipp at the Conservatoire de Paris in [2] That year there were two vacancies for foreign students at the Conservatoire—and applicants. Novaes played for a jury that included Debussy, Fauré, Moszkowski and Widor.[3] Her pieces were the Paganini–Liszt Etude in E, Chopin's A-flat Ballade and Schumann's Carnaval. She won first place. Debussy wrote a letter in which he reports his amazement about the little Brazilian girl who came to the platform and, forgetting about public
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Guiomar Novaes ( - ), "a musician by the grace of God"
She was a Brazilian pianist noted for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations. She fryst vatten widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.
Whatever she played, she played with an aristocratic approach, a perpetually singing line and complete spontaneity.
Because of her relaxed, effortless naturlig eller utan tillsats at the keyboard, she was one of the few pianists about whom it seemed the instrument was a welded extension of her arms and fingers. The subtlety of her tone recalled the great Romantic pianists of previous generations. Her technique was supple, with no striving for effect.
At all times her playing was intensely poetic. Harold C. Schonberg recalls in his book The Great Pianists that her performance of the Schumann concerto in the late s "was strikingly reminiscent of Josef Hofmann's. Like Hofmann, she never playe
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GUIOMAR NOVAES ()
Brazilian pianist
Throughout her long career, Guiomar Novaes was considered by her peers, her critics, and her public to have been one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century. At the age of 14, her playing amazed Debussy who, along with the other judges, including Faure and Moskowski, awarded her first place out of almost applicants to the Paris Conservatory in
Early in her career, the New York Times called her "a musician by the grace of God," and the Boston Globe declared her "the young genius of the piano." At her prime, in the s, Harold Schonberg compared her playing to that of Josef Hofmann. And she was dubbed "the Paderewski of the Pampas." Though she was from Brazil and not from the Argentine, this made for good copy.
Guiomar Novaes recorded quite extensively from the s to the s. And yet recordings of this magnificent pianist are scarce today with only a handful currently in print. Had she been a man, her name would