Mathieu-André Reichert

Virtuoso flutist Mathieu-André Reichert was also a composer, influenced by and an impact to Brazilian music. The impeccable flute technique of Reichert’s in touch with the Brazilian ginga of Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado Jr. is normally assumed to become the origin from the Brazilian flute lineage. The kid of nomadic music artists, Reichert begun to play in cafés early in his youth, soon learning to be a professional. Used by teacher Jules Demeur and François-Joseph Fétis towards the Brussels Conservatory, he previously such a fulgurant functionality there. At 17, he gained the Conservatory’s initial award and was employed as musician from the Belgium courtroom. At exactly the same time, he became a global concerto flutist, playing in European countries and america. In 1859, Brazil’s Emperor D. Pedro II employed several European virtuosi to try out on the palace. On June 8, 1859, Dutch violinists André and Ludwig Gravestein, Italian trompa participant Cavalli, Italian clarinetist Cavallini, and Reichert found its way to Rio. The initial performance was on the Teatro Lírico Fluminense, and Reichert became the initial flute from the Teatro Provisório. On July 3 from the same calendar year, he opened up in the positioning of soloist and performed throughout São Paulo, Rio Grande perform Sul, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Pará and acquired a lot of observed disciples, included in this Manoel Marcelino Vale and Duque Estrada Meyer. In Rio, he became close friends with Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado Jr., the fantastic Brazilian flutist of these situations. But he inadvertently provoked the animosity from the supporters of Callado, who pretended to make a rivalry between them that hardly ever existed. Reichert created more interest throughout the device throughout Rio. Not merely was he an outstanding participant and composer, but he was among the introducers of the present day Boëhm program of the present day transverse flute, starting new options for the device. The system, developed from the German Theobald Boëhm, experienced strong opposition from the supporters from the older wooden flute having a variable amount of secrets. By and by, Reichert became interested and, finally, passionate from the music from the Carioca chorõsera (choro players). His many compositions, specifically his polka “La Coquette,” are evidences from the assimilation from the Brazilian method of playing. This polka was used in to the choro repertory of these times beneath the name of “As Faceiras,” getting played, regarding to Batista Siqueira, by all music rings of Rio de Janeiro. Reichert finished his times in comprehensive poverty, dying of cerebral convulsion due to meningoencephalitis, eight times before Callado (who passed away in the same epidemic, that was ravaging Rio at that time). Reichert was buried in the Cemitério de São João Batista, Rio.