Walter Burle Marx (Born: São Paulo, Brazil, July 23, 1902; Died: Akron, USA, December 28, 1990) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer.
[1] Brother of the famous landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, Walter took the first piano lessons with his mother at age 4 and, in 1913, he became a student of Luigi Chiaffarelli in São Paulo.
[2] In 1926, Walter rebelled against the wishes of his family - who wanted him to focus only on piano - and started classes on orchestration and instrumentation in Berlin with E. N. von Reznicek, for two years.
Weingartner, an Austrian pupil of Franz Liszt, was considered a brilliant interpreter Beethoven and Mahler and a major conductor of orchestras in Vienna, Berlin, and Munich.
[2] In 1932 he was appointed professor of the conducting course at the National Institute of Music, today Escola de Música at UFRJ, having been the 1st conductor of higher education in Brazil.
[5] Walter decided spend some time in Europe and, in 1933, he made various recordings with Telefunken with the State Orchestra of Berlin, including his own Fantasy on the National Brazilian Anthem, which he authored.