Mário de Andrade

Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was born on 9 October 1893 in São Paulo, where he lived almost all his life. Trained at the city's conservatory, he lost his brother Renato in 1913, gave up the piano and became a music teacher. A central figure of the São Paulo avant-garde, he was one of the organisers of the Modern Art Week of 1922 and a pioneer of ethnomusicology, attentive to folklore. Director of the department of culture of São Paulo from 1935 until his death, he died in his city on 25 February 1945.

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• NovelMacunaímaMário de Andrade · 1928LiteraturePublic domain