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- Henrique Morozowicz
Zbigniew Henrique Morozowicz, best known as Henrique
de Curitiba (eng-HEE-kee gee koo-ree-CHEE-bah), was born of Polish parents
in 1934 in the city of Curitiba, in the State of Paraná in the South
of Brazil.He attended the Free School of Music in São Paulo. After
participating in the Chopin piano competition in Poland, he studied at
the Warsaw Conservatory. Returning to Brazil in 1964, he started a teaching
career at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Paraná
where he taught until his retirement in 1994. He was one of the first
Brazilian composers to obtain a scholarship for Graduate Studies in Music
in 1979/1981, studying at Cornell University and Ithaca College, under
the guidance of the composer Karel Husa, a Pulitzer Prize winner.Henrique
de Curitiba has written more than 150 works, mainly instrumental, chamber
music, piano and choral works. He has many pieces published and recorded
in Brazil, Europe and the USA. Among his best-known works are Sonata 87
for violin and piano, Missa Brevis in Brazilian rhythms, the Poem to the
Mountains for string orchestra, the piano variations on the French canon
Frère Jaques and choral compositions such as Pingos d'Agua and Alleluia
Paz na Terra. Henrique de Curitiba, lives in the city of Londrina (little
London), Paraná State, in the South of Brazil.