1940

  • On May 22, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Roberta Gnattali [1], daughter of Radamés and Vera, was born.

  • On April 19, the Borgerth Quartet [2] records, at Columbia, the
    Quartet No. 1
    composed in 1939, by Radamés Gnattali. It is the composer’s first piece of classical music to be recorded on disc.

  • On July 17, the Borgerth Quartet gave the first public performance of Quartet No. 1 at the Escola Nacional de Música, in Rio de Janeiro
.

Gazeta de Notícias (RJ)
Maestro Radamés Gnattali records on “Columbia” records.

Quartet No. 1 for 2 violins, viola and cello
I – Moved (excerpt)
Borgerth Quartet
Columbia -95075ª / 271-1 (1940)

  • The recording company Victor releases the song Gaita, by Radamés Gnattali, based on a poem by Augusto Meyer, interpreted by the singer Christina Maristany, with orchestra and conducting by the author.
  • To celebrate its 4th anniversary, Rádio Nacional presents a concert with compositions by Radamés Gnattali. On the program, Brazilian Rhapsody for piano (1930).
  • This year, Radamés arranged and participated in the creation of the soundtrack for Humberto Mauro’s film Argila, with music by Villa-Lobos and Heckel Tavares.
  • At Rádio Nacional, Almirante, José Mauro and Radamés organize the program Instantâneos Son oros[3], a musical documentary about Brazilian folklore.

A Noite (RJ)
“Sound Snapshots of Brazil”

 

  • In Germany, the renowned Spanish pianist José Arriola [4] performs Radamés Gnattali’s
    Brazilian Fantasy
     [nº 1]
    for piano and orchestra
    by Radamés Gnattali, with the Berlin Radio Orchestra conducted by Georg Wach.

Carioca (RJ) > Radamés, músico do Brasil (…) Por Leo Laner

Carioca (RJ) > “Radamés, musician from Brazil”, by Leo Laner.

Radamés composes:

    • A casinha pequenina, para canto e piano – sobre motivo popular (autor desconhecido)
    • Azulão, para canto e piano – sobre poema de Manoel Bandeira
    • Popular Quartet, for string quartet
    • Suite for small orchestra

    • Three Miniatures (waltz, modinha, and jongo), for orchestra
      (from the original for piano solo, 1937)
    • Trio Miniatura, for piano, violin and cello
  • Conductor and composer José Siqueira founds the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (OSB) in Rio de Janeiro, and remains its director until 1948.
  • The Rio Grande do Sul poet Mário Quintana makes his masterful debut with Rua dos Cataventos.
  • Rádio Nacional is taken over by the government, becoming the largest and most important radio station in the country [5].
  • Getúlio Vargas institutes the minimum wage.
  • Hitler invades France and takes Paris.

[1] Roberta Gnattali graduated in Medicine in 1966 from the Faculdade Nacional de Medicina in Praia Vermelha, Rio de Janeiro. In 1968, he joined the Iraci Doyle Psychoanalytic Society, concluding his training in Psychoanalysis in 1975.
[2] O Quarteto Borgerth (indicated on the disc label as Quarteto Carioca) was formed by Oscar Borgerth (violin), Alda Borgerth (violin), Edmundo Blois (viola), and Iberê Gomes Grosso (cello).
[3] Read the complete report at Recortes.
[4] Leia a reportagem completa em Recortes.
[5] “Until then, the station belonged to a business group that included the newspaper A Noite, a Rio Editora, a Companhia Estrada de Ferro São Paulo – Rio Grande and thousands of bushels of land in Paraná and Santa Catarina. All this was incorporated by the government on March 08, 1940, when Getúlio Vargas instituted the decree-law no. 2073, to pay a debt of three million pounds assumed by the group, with the government’s endorsement”. (SAROLDI, L. C.; MOREIRA, S. V. Rádio Nacional – O Brasil em Sintonia. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 2005).

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