Eunice Katunda
Eunice do Monte Lima Katunda was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer.Life
Katunda was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied piano with Oscar Guanabarino and Marieta Lion, composition with Furio Franceschini, Camargo Guarnieri and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. Beginning in 1944, she worked as a concert pianist and was a member of the Música Viva ensemble founded by Koellreutter. In 1948, together with students of Koellreutter, Katunda travels to Italy, where she will study conducting with Hermann Scherchen. From this year, Eunice approaches the aesthetic socialist guidelines. In 1950 she began the study of Brazilian folk music with Pierre Verger. Katunda taught musicology at the University of Brasília and composition at the Rio de Janeiro Conservatory. She died in São José dos Campos.Works
Katunda often combined folk element with 12-note technique. Selected compositions include:
- A Flauta
- Anunciação
- Aóion
- Assim como as folhas
- Bom Jesus do Calvário
- Consciência de ser
- Dialética
- Encomenda de Almas
- Estro africano n.2
- Incelença das Ave-Marias
- Incelenças do anjo do céu
- Incelenças do anjo-Serafim
- Incelenças dos cravos e rosas
- Louvor de Oxum
- Louvor de Yemanjá
- Moda da solidão-solitude
- Moda do corajoso
- Não comerei
- O anjo das pernas tortas
- O espectro da rosa
- O mais que perfeito
- O sono da amada
- Pois que tão raramente
- Prenúncio do Sol
- Refrão de infância
- Rosa dos quatro espinhos
- Ser subjetivo
- Seresta do maior amor
- Sono una creatura
- Teu nome
- Trenoda al poeta morto
- 'Negrinho do pastoreio cantata for 3vv, flute, guitar, percussion, 1946
- Cantata do soldado morto, chorus, small orchestra, 1965
- Cantata dos marinheiros, chorus, orchestra, 1975
- 4 cantos à morte, 1948
- A negrinha e Iemanjá, chorus, orchestra, 1955
- Pianoforte Concerto, 1955
- Homenagem a Schoenberg, clarinet, viola, violincello, piano, 1949
- Serestas, 4 sax, 1956
- 2 serestas, guitar, 1972
- Momento de Lorca, for piano, 1957
- 4 momentos de Rilke, for piano, 1958
- Sonata de louvação, for piano, 1960
- Sonata fúnebre, for piano, 1970
