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Respected Brazilian musician whose more traditional style was shunned after the Brazilian Modernist movement took hold.He directed Rio de Janeiro's Instituto Nacional de Música from 1903 until 1906.He and fellow Brazilian pianist Guiomar Novaes were contemporaries.
BEFORE FAMEHe was a student in Florence, Italy, for many years.
PERSONAL LIFEHis mother was from Italy and was a piano teacher, while his father was a Swiss-German immigrant. The family name was changed from Oschwald to Oswald for fear of discrimination.
The meaning of the name Oswald: God Rule FUN FACTSPianist Henrique Oswald were born on Wednesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Diamond, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of , it is 104 days until Henrique Oswald next birthday.
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