Lívio Romano Tragtenberg (born 1961) is a Brazilian musician, composer, music theorist, professor and record producer.[1]
Biography
Tragtenberg was born in São Paulo in 1961, to professor and sociologist Maurício Tragtenberg [pt] and actress Beatriz Tragtenberg [pt]. On his father's side, he is of German-Jewish descent, and has a brother and a sister. When he was 13 years old he learned by himself how to play the drum kit, leading on to other instruments.[2] During his later youth he met and befriended poets Décio Pignatari and siblings Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, who heavily influenced him, later dropping out from high school to follow a career on music. His debut album, Ritual, came out in 1980. Later in the 1980s he composed the operasO. de A. do Brasil and O Inferno de Wall Street, the latter based on a poem by 19th-century author Sousândrade,[2][3] and was a session musician for the 1988 EPThe Early Years, by progressive rock band Violeta de Outono.
Throughout the 1990s to the mid-2000s he continued to release albums, collaborating with Pignatari and Wilson Sukorski [pt], and was a music theory professor for Unicamp from 1990 to 1998.[2] He also taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Around the same time he met and befriended filmmaker Tata Amaral, and subsequently composed the soundtrack of many of her films, such as Um Céu de Estrelas (1996) and Hoje (2011); previously he has also worked with Lúcia Murat in 2000, Joel Pizzini in 2001 and Roberto Moreira in 2004.[4][5] He also managed the projects Blind Sound Orchestra (which is composed of blind musicians) and the Orquestras de Músicos das Ruas de São Paulo (composed of street musicians of different cultural backgrounds).[6]
1990 - Teleros para Orquestra e performer sobre texto de Décio Pignatari
1989 - A Cena da Origem sobre textos e traduções de Haroldo de Campos.
1987 - Inferno de Wall Street (ópera) (Prêmio Vitae)
1986 - Bailado do Deus Morto baseado em Flåvio de Carvalho. Oficinas Culturais Tres Rios.
1985 - Five Saints? - video-instalação na Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, com R. Bulcão.
1986 - Máscaras para Pound - cantata cênica sobre textos de Ezra Pound para orquestra de câmara e solistas.
1984 - O. DE A. DO BRASIL para comemoração dos 30 anos de falecimento do poeta Oswald de Andrade. Encomendado pela Prefeitura de São Paulo para o Teatro Municipal de São Paulo. Para orquestra, coro e meios eletrônicos. Estreado em dezembro de 1984.
1982 - Ritual para Sousândrade com a participação de Baldur Liesenberg e Cristiano Mota. Criações sonoras a partir de textos do poeta maranhense Joaquim de Sousândrade.
1980 - Ritual, LP, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
1979 - Mostra de Musica Contemporânea, Teatro Anchieta, SESC, São Paulo.
References
^"Lívio Tragtenberg". Fórum Permanente (in Portuguese). Retrieved June 27, 2019.
^ abc"Lívio Tragtenberg". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Portuguese). February 23, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2019.