Gilberto Mendes

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Gilberto Mendes (b. Santos, Oct, 13, 1922) is a Brazilian composer.

Mendes attended the Santos Conservatory from 1941 to 1949, and studied composition under Cláudio Santoro in 1954 and under George Olivier Toni from 1958-1960. In the 1960s he studied in Darmstadt under Pierre Boulez, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1965, he founded the Santos Festival for New Music. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Texas, then was professor of music in Sao Paulo.

Mendes's compositions include cantatas, motets, orchestral music, incidental music, solo and chamber pieces, and some avant-garde works.

[edit] References

• Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 576.