Roberto Schnorrenberg

Roberto Schnorrenberg (São Paulo, June 23, 1929 - São Paulo, October 10, 1983) was a brazilian conductor. He received classical education in Liège, Belgium, where his family lived. In 1937, at the age of eight, he returned to Brazil, but continued to be educated in French and English. Schnorrenberg gained musical initiation with the study of the violin in 1940, quickly leading him to soloist status with the St. Paul's School, the school where he completed his secondary education in the city of São Paulo. In 1946, still in São Paulo, Schnorrenberg met Koellreutter, with whom he studied counterpoint, fugue and other topics in music. The learning relationship between the two musicians continued until the end of the 1950s[2]. In 1954 Schnorrenberg again traveled to Europe and enrolled at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he studied conducting and performed as an instrumentalist and conductor on numerous occasions. Once formed, he founded the chamber orchestra Música Viva in Brussels, Belgium, inspired by the movement of the same name started by Koellreutter in Brazil - until the end of the decade, he performed some tours with that orchestra, with recognition throughout Europe. Back in Brazil in 1958, Schnorrenberg took over the directorship of the Escola Livre de Música de São Paulo at the invitation of director Theodor Heuberger, the vice-director of the Escola Livre de Música in Rio de Janeiro, and participated in competitions and music workshops in several cities. Brazilians.[3] He was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in São Paulo, from 1964 to 1983, with which he won, in 1964 and 1965, the award for best choral ensemble from the Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Arte (APCA). He graduated in history and geography from the University of São Paulo, and studied violin, conducting and composition in Brazil, later perfecting himself in Germany.