Uma memória ímpar: a trajetória de Arthur Napoleão na sociabilidade musical de dois continentes (1843-1925)

Abstract

This thesis aims at studyng primary musical journey of portuguese pianist Arthur Napoleão (1843-1925), since their musical initiation in the hometown of the Porto, until the death in Rio de Janeiro in 1925. Discusses the relevance of the insertion of the pianist and his music in the cultural partners of the countries of Europe and the Americas, in whose cities performed during the first fifteen years of his carrer. Likewise, also studied the circumstances of the permanence of the remarkable interpreter in Brazil, as an immigrant lives, since 1868, as well as the consolidation of its new labour perspective in the field of music, as an entrepreneur and cultural mediator. And also through the organisation of shops geared toward selling pianos and musical scores, which have become important musical sociability spaces in Court, after the federa capital of the Republic, throughout his life. The numerous and varied sources used here are partisan of the autobiographical text legacy by Arthur Napoleão, 1907. These "Memories", at the same time a source of information and study object, enable trace examination vis-à-vis with the remaining documentation, the artistic trajectory of Arthur Napoleão from Portugal to Brazil, in changing socio-cultural universe, the second half of the 19th century to the first quarter of the 20th century.