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Carlos Gomes (July 11, 1836 — September 16, 1896) He was born in Campinas,
Brazil, son of Maestro Manuel José Gomes and Fabiana Maria JaguariCardoso. He
was the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe. He is the
only non-European who was successful as an opera composer in Italy, during the
"golden age of opera," contemporary of Verdi and Puccini.
Younger
than Verdi, yet older than Puccini, Carlos Gomes achieved his first major
success in a time when the Italian audiences were eager for a new name to
celebrate and Puccini had not yet officially started his career. After the
successful premiere of Il Guarany, Gomes was considered the most promising new
composer. Verdi said his work was an
expression of “true musical genius.”
Liszt said that “it displays dense technical maturity, full of harmonic
and orchestral maturity.”
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