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Gina de Araújo

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Maria Georgina Araújo de Olinda Régis de Oliveira (April 3, 1890 – 1960) was a Brazilian composer and singer.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Araujo traveled to Paris to study voice; her teachers there included Jules Massenet, Jean de Reszke, and André Gedalge. As a composer she wrote piano pieces and songs, as well as some larger-scale works for orchestra.[1] She was married to the diplomat Raul Régis de Oliveira, upon whose death she composed a requiem mass.[2] She died in the city of her birth.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Miguel Ficher; Martha Furman Schleifer; John M. Furman (16 October 2002). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-1-4616-6911-1.
  2. ^ Gina de Araújo Régis de Oliveira, Requiem Survey.