EGBERTO GISMONTI
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Egberto Gismonti (born 1947 in Carmo, RJ, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.
He 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 with Nadia Boulanger (orchestration and analysis), and composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple of Schoenberg and Webern. After his return to Brazil, Gismonti began to glimpse a reality broader than the classical world of music. He was attracted by Ravel's ideas of orchestration and chord voicings, as well as by "choro", a Brazilian instrumental popular music where varied kinds of guitars are featured. To play this music he made the transition from piano to guitar, beginning on the 6-string classical instrument and switching to the 8-string guitar in 1973. He spent two years experimenting with different tunings and searching for new sounds, which is also reflected in his use of
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Sonho 70
World Fusion
1970
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Carmo
World Fusion
1977
4.05 |
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Solo
World Fusion
1979
4.04 |
3 ratings
Circense
World Fusion
1979
3.50 |
2 ratings
Sanfona
World Fusion
1981
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Fantasia
World Fusion
1982
4.50 |
1 ratings
Alma
World Fusion
1986
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Kuarup
World Fusion
1989
4.00 |
2 ratings
Infancia
World Fusion
1991
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Amazonia
Jazz Related Soundtracks
1991
4.25 |
2 ratings
Zig Zag
World Fusion
1996
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Retatos
World Fusion
2004
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