Gilberto Mendes

Gilberto Mendes (13 October 1922 – 1 January 2016) was a 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde composer, and one of the pioneering fathers of the company New Consonant Music.

He studied piano with Antonieta Rudge and harmony with Sabino de Benedictis.

His contact with the poets of the Noigandres group gave him the ideological inspiration to feed his talent.

[1] He attended the Santos Conservatory from 1941 to 1948, where he studied harmony with Savino de Benedictis [pt] and piano with Antonietta Rudge.

He later studied composition under Cláudio Santoro in 1954 and under George Olivier Toni from 1958 to 1960.