Ernesto Nazareth

Ernesto Nazareth is one of the most important composers and musicians of Brazil's "Belle Époque." When he was born, the choro was already established as a genuine Brazilian musical creation, but wasn't a genre yet, rather a playing style for the European dance pieces. Through those composers of the Belle Époque, mainly Ernesto Nazareth, the repertoire would be broadened, and other changes would contribute to the formation of the genre of choro. Ernesto Nazareth was the one who would establish firmly, through his compositions, the precursor of choro, the so-called Brazilian tan...