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ALEXANDRE LEVY (1864 -1892)
PIANO WORKS - STUDY AND RECORDINGS
Tango Brasileiro
Writers dealing with the panorama of Brazilian music most commonly mention Levy as a precursor of so-called nationalistic music, Tango Brasileiro being one of the works adduced in justification. This work was initially published on April 5, 1890, in the Diario Popular, with the dedication “Ao Diário Popular” and was very successful. The following editions were also found: Impressora Moderna (1937); Irmãos Vitale (1945 and 1959); Edição Alex Levy (Buenos Aires, n.d.); L. Levy & Irmão (n.d.) and Casa Levy (n.d.). Gerard Béhague, in The beginnings of musical nationalism in Brazil (1971, p. 21), considers it as Levy's composition in which the popular spirit is most recognizable: “the sentimentality typical of modinhas inspired the thematic material”. He considers that it was probably influenced by Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado (1848-1880). He adds that the so-called Brazilian tango also quickly became inseparable from the maxixe, a rhythm very much in vogue in the salons of the capital of São Paulo, to the point where a differentiation of the two genres was impossible in terms of rhythm and character. The proximity of Tango Brasileiro to the works of Chiquinha Gonzaga or Ernesto Nazareth is evident.
Gabriella Affonso
Gabriella has a PhD from USP, supervised by Eduardo Monteiro. She is a lecturer at the School of Music of the Federal University of Pará, and is researching the interpretive traditions in Chopin and Pleyel pianos of the time. She has a specialisation from the Chopin Institute in Warsaw in 2018. An award-winner in Brazil and abroad, she has performed as a soloist with the Campinas Symphony and Theatro da Paz, among other orchestras. She holds a master's and bachelor's degree from the City University of New York, under the guidance of Edna Golandsky (Taubman approach). She was supervised by Arnaldo Cohen at Indiana University, holding a Performer Diploma, and by Edson Elias at École Normale de Musique in Paris.
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