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Where to start with Gomes
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles
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Stage
Il Guarany — Opera
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Chamber
Sonata for string quartet in D
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Vocal
Colombo, oratorio
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Stage
Fosca, opera
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Stage
Il Guarany, opera
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Vocal
Io ti vidi, song
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Stage
Lo Schiavo, opera
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Vocal
Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, for soloists, chorus and orchestra
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Vocal
Realtà, meditation for voice and piano
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Stage
Salvator Rosa, opera
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Gomes's catalogue
Most Popular
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Il Guarany (opera)
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Lo schiavo (opera)
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Fosca (opera)
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Overture from Il Guarany
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Canzone brasiliana
Most Acclaimed
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Il Guarany
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Fosca
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Lo schiavo
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Colombo (cantata)
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Maria Tudor (opera)
Most Weird
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Il Guarany
Brazilian indigenous subject in full Italian grand opera style — the only 19th-century Brazilian opera to succeed internationally
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Colombo
cantata for the Columbus quatercentenary in 1892
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A Noite do Castelo
his first opera — performed in Rio in 1861
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Joanna de Flandres (opera)
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Lo schiavo
the slave — written in support of Brazilian abolition; premiered the year slavery was abolished
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinity
Works 10
- Stage
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● Il Guarany
— Opera
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Fosca, opera
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Il Guarany, opera
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Lo Schiavo, opera
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Salvator Rosa, opera
- Chamber
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Sonata for string quartet in D
- Vocal
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Colombo, oratorio
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Io ti vidi, song
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Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, for soloists, chorus and orchestra
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Realtà, meditation for voice and piano
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