Alberto Nepomuceno
Brazilian composer
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Latin American music
- In Latin American music: The 19th century
…Brazil is best represented by Alberto Nepomuceno. In several of his piano pieces, his String Quartet No. 3 (1891; subtitled “Brasileiro”), and above all in his Série brasileira (1892), for orchestra, Nepomuceno incorporated traits of popular dance music and attempted to depict aspects of Brazilian life.
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