Edson Tadeu Ortolan responded to Karl Miller:

>>Are there many Brazilian composers writing art music, opera, chamber
>>music, symphonic music, etc.  these days and are there recordings
>>available?
>
>The answer is YES.
>
>We have a five hundred of History of the Music since Colonial Age (with
>masses, marches and music court - the Brazilian territory was ocupied
>by Portuguese, Spanish, Holland, French and English Empires) to present
>day (with intense symphonic activity and electro-acoustical music).

As a follow-up to this, Edson sent me a file listing a multitude of
Brazilian composers, with information as to dates, style, education,
etc.  The file contains both English and Portuguese versions of the list.
I've made PDF versions of these lists available at Classical Net at:

    http://www.classical.net/music/composer/brazilian.pdf
    http://www.classical.net/music/composer/brazilian_port.pdf (Portuguese)

With Edson's permission, I made some slight changes and corrections to
the English version of the text.

You can also get to these files by going to Classical Net and clicking
on the "Composer's Works & Data" link.

Many thanks to Edson for making this available.

Dave
http://www.classical.net/

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