Walter Burle Marx (1902-1990) was a Brazilian conductor/composer/pianist who was a close friend and a big advocate of Villa-Lobos. He conducted important Villa-Lobos premieres in Brazil and America, including important concerts at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. I recently came across his interesting guitar pieces on a recording by Stephen Aron, and look forward to listening to more Burle Marx.
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) was a great Brazilian landscape architect who designed the gardens at the Museu Villa-Lobos. Though this isn't mentioned in his (otherwise very informative) Wikipedia article, the two were brothers.
I discovered this when I came across the cool story "Esthetics: Brazil's Marx Brothers", in the July 21, 1967 issue of Time Magazine. This was indeed an accomplished and interesting family, and distantly related to Karl Marx as well.
Amazing!
ReplyDeleteWalter Burle Marx married an American and moved to Philadelphia, where I studied with him as a young person. He was a brilliant composer, conductor, and pianist.
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