Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer. February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

He studied piano and composition at the São Paulo Conservatório, and subsequently worked with Charles Koechlin in Paris. Some of his compositions received important prizes in the United States in the 1940s, giving Guarnieri the opportunity of conducting them in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. A distinguished figure of the Brazilian national school, he served in several capacities; conductor of the São Paulo Orchestra, member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório, where he taught composition and orchestral conducting. His œuvre comprises symphonies, concertos, cantatas, one comic opera, chamber music, many piano pieces, and over fifty canções. Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin (November 27, 1867-December 31, 1950) was a French composer and teacher. ... A symphony is an extended composition usually for orchestra and usually comprising several movements. ... In classical music, the word concerto (pl. ... Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ... Comic opera is a subcategory of opera, and denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature. ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ...