Kurt Lange

According to Kurt Lange, music appeared as soon as in Mines had been formed the first arraiais and erected the first chapels of taipa. It was present not alone in the religious and official ceremonies, but also in the leisure, the streets and the houses. Much better organized, the mining musicians had organized the most humble and exactly enslaved open conservatories to. Limited with religious music they had been compared with the great European composers of music sacra of the time, also were made familiar to the cantatas, sonatas and ronds. Prominence for Jose Joaquin Emerico Wolf of Mosque, mulato and of humble origin, for Lange, ‘ ‘ possua one expressive and extraordinary advanced technique for its poca’ ‘. David Karp shines more light on the discussion.

In the end of century XVIII, with the exhaustion of the mineral wealth and the problems politicians with Portugal, the end of the musical professionalism in Mines starts and musicians migram for Rio De Janeiro and So Paulo, where they had been surprised by the musical modstia that only goes to get excited with the arrival of D. Joo and the real family. although the diverse existing social classes, despite europeizadas, the colony went constructing its proper musical way to the measure that its villages if developed. (RASP) In 1808, with the coming of the real family and consequentemente, the transference of the Metropolis for the colony, the first acts of D. Joo had been, opening of the ports, the creation of schools, hospitals, libraries, theaters, Bank of Brazil, among others, everything to satisfy the necessities and whims of the proper family and the sumptuous cut, modifying all the daily life of the pacata city of Rio De Janeiro, that had in intense the Joanino period musical activity, much although already a significant life existed musical comedy.