Camargo Guarnieri

Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer and conductor from the 20th century. He was one of the most important composers from Brazil, and his extensive worklist contains several concertos, six symphonies, and over 200 songs. He was born in Tietê, São Paulo in 1907, and he started studying music when he was ten years old. His father was a Sicilian immigrant who loved classical music and named each of his children after great composers. At birth, Guarnieri's first name was Mozart, but he later decided that it was too pretentious of a name for a musician and started to use hi...