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Mariuccia Iacovino

Mariuccia Iacovino (12 December 1912 – 16 May 2008) was a Brazilian violinist and instructor. A child prodigy on the violin, she studied in Brazil and Spain and performed internationally. At the end of World War II, she moved to Paris and performed as a soloist with the Cologne Orchestra. In 1964, she and the Quarteto da Guanabara received the first prize from the international Villa-Lobos String Quartet Competition and in 1966, she was awarded the Carlos Gomes Medal in Rio de Janeiro.

Mariuccia Iacovino
1968
Born(1912-12-12)12 December 1912
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died16 May 2008(2008-05-16) (aged 95)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Other namesMariuccia Iacovino Valls Estrela
Occupationviolinist
Years active1924–2008

Early life

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Mariuccia Iacovino was born on 12 December 1912 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[1][2] She began studying music at a young age and by the time she was six years old, had passed the examinations[3] to enter the Instituto Nacional de Música.[2] In 1924, when the school created its orchestra, now known as the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Symphony Orchestra, Iacovino played in the premier performance, along with Iberê Gomes Grosso [ru] and Oscar Borgerth [ru], under the direction of Antônio Francisco Braga.[4] Studying violin under the master violinist Paulina d'Ambrósio [pt], Iacovino graduated at age fifteen, having won the gold medal. In 1928, she traveled to Barcelona, Spain to continue her studies with Enrique Fernández Arbós[2] and Màrius Mateo [ca]. She spent a year touring and studying in Spain before returning to Brazil to study with d'Ambrósio and Heitor Villa-Lobos. While studying with Villa-Lobos, Iacovino met the noted pianist Arnaldo Estrela [ru], whom she would marry.[3]

Career

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In the 1930s, Iacovino performed with Edoardo de Guarnieri [ca] and Alfredo Gomes and taught at the Lorenzo Fernandez Academy of Music in Rio de Janeiro. She founded and became the director of the Quartet Society in 1943, heading the organization to 1947.[5] At the end of World War II, Estrela was invited to move to Paris and he and Iacovino relocated there in 1945[3] along with their daughter Myrian Dauelsberg. The duo Iacovino-Estrela performed throughout Europe making numerous trips to the Soviet Union,[6] also performing in Angola, China, and often in Poland and Portugal.[5] In 1949, she was hired as the soloist of the Cologne Orchestra in Paris, which was under Villa-Lobos's direction at that time. She performed in the debut of his Fantasia de Movimentos Místicos (Fantasy of Mystical Movements), considered Villa-Lobos's most complex work for violins. In 1952 she attended the Congress of the People for Peace[3] held in Vienna,[7][Notes 1] along with Estrela, Jorge Amado and Candido Portinari. The attendance at this Congress would later create problems during the McCarthy Era, when Iacovino was denied a visa to perform in the United States.[3]

In 1954, the couple returned to Brazil[2] and founded the Guanabara Quartet. Besides Iacovino and Estrela, the other two members were Iberê Gomes Grosso on cello and Frederick Stephany on viola. Traveling throughout Europe, the quartet played fifty-two concerts,[3] featuring music by Brazilian composers, which were well received.[9] In 1964, they were honored with the first prize in the international Villa-Lobos String Quartet Competition.[2][3] Two years later, Iacovino received the Carlos Gomes Medal in Rio de Janeiro.[2] In 1968, she became the first violinist to record the Violin Sonata in A-major, Op. 14 by Leopoldo Miguéz.[10] That same year, she co-founded the Sociedade Villa Lobos (Villa Lobos Society), with her husband and Lourdes Tornaghi to promote concert performances in Petrópolis.[11][12]

Between 1969 and 1979, during the military dictatorship the quartet was unable to travel and regularly played at the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro. Preferring to play to live audiences, Iacovino did record six CDs.[3] Some of her most noted recordings include Camargo Guarnieri's Sonata No. 4; Miguéz's sonata; and Três Sonatas para Violino (Three Sonatas for Violin), Duo para Violino e Viola (Duo for Violin and Viola), Trio de Cordas (String Trio) and Chôros bis, all by Villa-Lobos.[12] Iacovino continued performing until shortly before her death[13] and the length of her career was at one time a record holder in The Guinness Book of World Records.[14]

Death and legacy

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Iacovino died peacefully at her home in Rio de Janeiro on 16 May 2008.[13][15] Since the creation of the Villa Lobos Society, more than 500 concerts have been held in Petrópolis.[11] Numerous artists, including Camargo Guarnieri, Radamés Gnattali, Francisco Mignone, Ronaldo Miranda, Marlos Nobre, Almeida Prado and Alexandre Schubert wrote works in her honor.[1][13][16] A youth orchestra in Campos is named in her honor.[14] The Mariuccia Iacovino Symphony Orchestra has played throughout Brazil and toured in the United States.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ Araújo indicates this Congress was held in Warsaw;[3] however, Neruda was not involved in the planning of the Warsaw Congress of 1950, he was a recipient of the World Peace Council's Peace Prize, along with Pablo Picasso.[8] The 1952 Congress in Vienna was planned by Neruda, Jorge Amado, Ilya Ehrenburg and Nicolas Guillén.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Nobre 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Candido 2017, p. 108.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Araújo 2000.
  4. ^ Projeto Musical 2006.
  5. ^ a b Bispo 2008.
  6. ^ Gazeta do Povo 2010.
  7. ^ a b Feinstein 2008, p. 264.
  8. ^ Feinstein 2008, p. 257.
  9. ^ Mason 1964, p. 7.
  10. ^ Candido 2017, p. 94.
  11. ^ a b Serrana 2016.
  12. ^ a b Dell'Arte n.d.
  13. ^ a b c Frésca 2009.
  14. ^ a b Booth & Tunstall 2016, p. 96.
  15. ^ Jornal Musical 2008, p. 11.
  16. ^ Moore 2007.

Further reading

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  • Araújo, Luís Edmundo (2000). "Mariuccia Iacovino, 87 anos" [Mariuccia Iacovino, 87 years old]. ISTOÉ (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil. Archived from the original on 1 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • Bispo, A. A. (2008). "68: Tradição e renovação na difusão camerística Mariuccia Iacovino e Arnaldo Estrella" [68: Tradition and renovation in the performing diffusion Mariuccia Iacovino and Arnaldo Estrella]. Revista Brasil-Europa (in Portuguese). 6 (116). Gummersbach, Germany: Instituto de Estudos de Cultura Musical do Espaço de Língua Portuguesa Institut für Studien der Musikkultur des portugiesischen Sprachraumes. ISSN 1866-203X. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • Booth, Eric; Tunstall, Tricia (2016). Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-24565-3.
  • Candido, Marcio Andre (2017). The sonata for violin and piano in A-Major, Op. 14 by Leopoldo Miguéz (1850–1902): analysis, influences, and its role in the violin literature (PhD). Boston, Massachusetts: Boston University. hdl:2144/23362.
  • Feinstein, Adam (2008). Pablo Neruda. New York City, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59691-781-1.
  • Frésca, Camila (26 January 2009). "Professores e grandes intérpretes do violino no Brasil" [Teachers and great interpreters of the violin in Brazil]. Revista Concerto (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Clássicos Editorial Ltda. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • Mason, Colin (24 February 1964). "Rio de Janeiro Quartet at the Wigmore Hall". The Guardian. London, England. p. 7. Retrieved 27 September 2017 – via Newspapers.com.  
  • Moore, Tom (5 September 2007). "Alexandre Schubert: An Interview". Música Brasileira. Austin, Texas. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • Nobre, Maria Luiza (12 December 2011). "A lendária Mariuccia Iacovino" [The legendary Mariuccia Iacovino] (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Jornal do Brasil. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • Serrana, Região (14 December 2016). "Coral da UFRJ se apresenta no Theatro Dom Pedro, em Petrópolis, RJ" [UFRJ Choir presents at The Dom Pedro Theater in Petrópolis, RJ] (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Grupo Globo. Archived from the original on 15 December 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • "Obituário: Mariuccia Iacovino (1912/2008)" [Obituaries: Mariuccia Iacovino (1912/2008)] (PDF). Jornal Musical (in Portuguese) (40). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Sindicato dos Músicos Profissionais do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: 11. April–June 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • "Orquestra Sinfônica da UFRJ (OSUFRJ)" [Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Symphony Orchestra]. Projeto Musical (in Portuguese). Brazil. 2006. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • "Quarteto da Guanabara e Orquestra Sinfônica de Campos Mariuccia Iacovino" [The Guanabara Quartet and Mariuccia Iacovino Symphonic Orchestra of Campos]. Dell'Arte (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Dell'Arte Soluções Culturais. n.d. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  • "Stravinski encaixotado" [Stravinski Collection] (in Portuguese). Tarumã, Brazil: Gazeta do Povo. 21 December 2010. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
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