1928

  • Composer and conductor Mário Tavares, to whom Radamés had great esteem and admiration, was born in Natal (RN).
  • Born in Santa Cruz do Sul (RS), Romeu Seibel (Chiquinho do Acordeom) [1], to whom Radamés dedicates, in 1977, the Concerto para acordeom e orquestra de cordas.

Radamés composes:


    • Reminiscence
      for violin, flute, bassoon and piano

    • Reminiscence
      for string quartet with piano (transcription)

    • Violin
      for violin and piano – work dedicated to the violinist and friend Sílvio Grandi. This piece is a transcription of Romance (without words), from 1927. In 1930 Radamés recorded this piece, at Odeon, with violinist Romeu Ghipsman, under the title
      Violin Singing.


  • The first samba school is founded in Rio de Janeiro: Deixa Falar [2], in the neighborhood of Estácio.
  • Begins to circulate, in São Paulo, the Revista de Antropofagia, in which Oswald de Andrade publishes his Manifesto Antropófago.

[1] Approved by maestro Radamés, Chiquinho joins the Rádio Nacional orchestra in 1953 and, in 1954, the Sexteto Radamés Gnattali.

[2] The samba school Deixa Falar was founded by a group of new composers and samba musicians from Rio de Janeiro, made up of Ismael Silva, Bide (Alcebíades Barcelos), Mano Rubem (Rubem Barcelos, Bide’s brother), Mano Edgar (Edgar Marcelino dos Passos) , Baiaco (Osvaldo Vasques), Brancura (Silvio Fernandes), Nilton Bastos, among others.