Antônio Carlos Gomes
Composer
1836 – 1896
Who was Antônio Carlos Gomes?
Antônio Carlos Gomes was the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe. The only non-European who was successful as an opera composer in Italy, during the "golden age of opera," contemporary to Verdi and Puccini.
Younger than Verdi, yet older than Puccini, Carlos Gomes achieved his first major success in a time when the Italian audiences were eager for a new name to celebrate and Puccini had not yet officially started his career. After the successful premiere of Il Guarany, Gomes was considered the most promising new composer. Verdi said his work was an expression of “true musical genius.” Liszt said that “it displays dense technical maturity, full of harmonic and orchestral maturity.”
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