Edino Krieger (17 March 1928 – 6 December 2022) was a Brazilian avant-garde composer, conductor, record producer and musical critic.
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Died | 6 December 2022 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 94)
Born in Brusque, Santa Catarina, the son of the composer and band leader Aldo Krieger, he studied at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro.[1]
During his career Krieger composed over 150 pieces, as well as songs (notably Vinicius de Moraes' "Fuga e antifuga"), incidental music and film scores.[1] Among his best known works, it is the 1972 suite "Canticum Naturale", in which orchestra recreates Amazonian natural sounds.[1] He served as director of Rádio MEC and as a musical critic for the newspaper Jornal do Brasil and the journal Tribuna da Imprensa , as well as president of several cultural institutions, including the Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro.[1][2]
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