Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1905 December 13 | Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Fernando de Castro Corrêa de Azevedo (1883-1926) and Henriqueta Corrêa de Azevedo (née Cunha, 1886-1961) |
| 1924-1927 | Attended Instituto Nacional de Música, University of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied piano with Alfredo do Bevilacqua and Charley Lachmund, and harmony and counterpoint with Paulo Silva |
| 1928-1930 | Music critic for O Imparcial and A Ordem in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1932-1933 | Co-organizer of youth concerts, Concertos da Juventude, for Philharmonic Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro with Walter Burle Marx |
| 1932-1939 | Librarian at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro Published periodical Arquivo de Música Brasileira |
| 1934 December 20 | Married pianist Violeta Pizarro Jacobina in Rio de Janeiro (born 1913 September 24 to Alberto Barbosa de Oliveira Jacobina, 1874-1950, and Maria Jacobina, née Almeida Pizarro, 1874-1961) |
| 1934-1937 | President of Associação Brasileira de Música |
| 1934-1941 | Founder and editor of first Brazilian musicology journal, Revista brasileira de musica |
| 1936 August 27 | Birth of daughter Maria Cecilia in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1937-1947 | Professor of ethnomusicology and folklore at the Escola Nacional de Música (Instituto Nacional) |
| 1938 | Published books Dois Pequenos Estudos de Folclore Musical; Escala, Ritmo e Melodia na Música dos Indios Brasileiros; and Relação das Óperas de Autores Brasileiros |
| 1939 | Appointed first Chair of National Folklore |
| 1941 November 27-1941 November 29 | Addressed the New York State School Music Association at their Ninth Annual Conference, Syracuse, New York |
| 1941 December 26 | Addressed the Music Teachers National Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1941 August 1-1942 January 31 | Served as Brazilian advisor to the Pan American Union Music Division |
| 1942-1943 | Made ethnographic field recordings of Brazilian music with E. Nogueira França for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress |
| 1943 | Founded the Centro de Pesquisas Folclóricas at the Escola Nacional de Música |
| 1944 | Made ethnographic field recordings of Brazilian music with E. Silva Novo for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress |
| 1945 | Founding member and First Secretary of the Academia Brasileira de Música |
| Circa 1946 | Second Secretary of the Instituto Brasileiro de Educação, Ciência e Cultura (IBECC) |
| 1947-1965 | Moved from Brazil to Paris to serve as head music program specialist at UNESCO Founding member, International Music Council (Conseil Internationale de la Musique/CIM) |
| 1948 | Book published, A Música Brasileira e Seus Fundamentos |
| 1950 | Books published, Música e Músicos do Brasil and Música do Tempo Desta Casa |
| 1952 | Book published, Bibliografia Musical Brasileira, 1820-1950 |
| 1954 | Book published, La Musique en Amérique Latine |
| 1954-1968 | Founding professor, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amerique Latine, Univerisity of Paris |
| 1956 | Book published, 150 anos de música no Brasil (1800-1950) |
| 1963 April 29-1963 May 2 | Round Table Chairman of "Musical History of Latin America – Problems and Opportunities" at the First Inter-American Conference on Musicology hosted at the Library of Congress. Presenters included Lauro Ayestarán, Gilbert Chase, Francisco Curt Lange, Charles Seeger, and Robert Stevenson. |
| 1965 | Retired from UNESCO |
| 1967 | Book published, Minhas Memórias da UNESCO |
| 1967-1968 | Visiting lecturer at Tulane University in New Orleans |
| 1969 | Visiting lecturer at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1970-1976 | Executive Board Member, International Folk Music Council |
| 1977 | Awarded medal from Leonardo da Vinci Institute in Milan Awarded prize from the International Music Council |
| 1979 | Appointed honorary member of the International Music Council |
| 1980 | Awarded Villa-Lobos Medal (Medalha Villa-Lobos) from Brazil’s Ministério da Educação e Cultura |
| 1982 | Appointed honorary member of Sociedade Brasileira de Musicologia in São Paulo |
| 1985 | Awarded honorable merit diploma from Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1992 November 10 | Died in Paris |