Edino Krieger
Edino Krieger (17 March 1928 – 6 December 2022) was a Brazilian avant-garde composer, conductor, record producer and musical critic.
Edino Krieger

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- Name
- Edino Krieger
- Born
- 17 March 1928
- Birthplace
- Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Died
- 6 December 2022
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Occupation
- composer · conductor · record producer · music critic · violinist
- Fields
- music · conducting · music industry · music criticism
- Honours
- Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Edino Krieger (17 March 1928 – 6 December 2022) was a Brazilian avant-garde composer, conductor, record producer and musical critic.
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• Name — Edino Krieger • Born — 17 March 1928 • Birthplace — Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil • Died — 6 December 2022 • Place of death — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Life and career
Life and career
Born in Brusque, Santa Catarina, the son of the composer and band leader Aldo Krieger, he studied at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro. During his career Krieger composed over 150 pieces, as well as songs (notably Vinicius de Moraes' "Fuga e antifuga"), incidental music and film scores. Among his best known works, it is the 1972 suite "Canticum Naturale", in which orchestra recreates Amazonian natural sounds. He served as director of Rádio MEC and as a musical critic for the newspaper Jornal do Brasil and the journal Tribuna da Imprensa, as well as president of several cultural institutions, including the Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro.
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Krieger died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 94.
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1928
Edino Krieger born at Brusque.
2022
Edino Krieger died at Rio de Janeiro.
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scholarly publication
- Edino Krieger, Musica Theorica, 2023
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2023
- Krieger, Edino, Oxford Music Online, 2001
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2001
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Edino Krieger worked in music, conducting, music industry, music criticism and music composing. He belonged to Academia Brasileira de Música. Recorded as composer, conductor, record producer, music critic and violinist.
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