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Death of doyen Brazil conductor, 91

RIP

norman lebrecht

July 22, 2022

The death has just been announced of Maestro Henrique Morelenbaum, a German child refugee who became a prominent conductor in Brazil.

He worked with many of the country’s leading institutions.

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Fenway says:

July 23, 2022 at 2:33 am

Maestro Henrique met me in Boston and invited me to play timpani in the Municipal Theater Orchestra in Rio, where he was principle conductor. Wonderful human, excellent musician and a good friend. Rio totally changed my life. I speak more Portuguese than English these days and work almost exclusively with Brasilians.

May Maestro Morelenbaum rest in peace.

amazonian says:

July 23, 2022 at 1:45 pm

So sad. A fine musician end educator. He was born in Poland, I think, and came to Brazil with his family as war refugees.
He can be seen in a João Moreira Salles’s film with Nelson Freire, conducting the orchestra in a Freire concert at Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater..
His son, Jaques Morelenbaum, is a cellist, arranger and bandleader who has worked with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Caetano Veloso, among other leading Brazilian popular musicians and composers.

Barry Guerrero says:

July 23, 2022 at 7:37 pm

His son, Jaques Morelenbaum, is a fine cellist who was worked with Gilberto Gil, A.C. ‘Tom’ Jobim (and his offspring), Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Ivan Lins and various other popular Brazilian musicians – mostly focused upon samba and bossanova, or at least incorporating those elements.