Cacilda Borges Barbosa

1914 - 2010

Cacilda studied with Francisco Braga and worked with Villa-Lobos from the 1930's and 1940's, assuming the role of director of Rio de Janeiro's Music Service. In that period, she conducted a choir of 40 thousand voices. Cacilda also published didactic literature as "Educação musical através do teclado" (in authorship with Maria de Lourdes Junqueira Gonçalves), among others. Cacilda studied with Francisco Braga and worked with Villa-Lobos from the 1930's and 1940's, assuming the role of director of Rio de Janeiro's Music Service. In that period, she conducted a choir of 40 thousand voices. Cacilda also published didactic literature as "Educação musical através do teclado" (in authorship with Maria de Lourdes Junqueira Gonçalves), among others. Birth: Brasil Rio de Janeiro RJ, 18/5/1914
Death: Brasil Rio de Janeiro RJ, 6/8/2010

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