Mário de Andrade e Richard Wagner na aurora do modernismo paulista

Abstract

The beginning of Mário de Andrade’s intellectual career is marked by his many approximations to the German composer Richard Wagner. In this article, I would like to present three excerpts that show how these two authors meet: the first is Mário’s reading of Wagner’s work; the second concerns the importance of this composer and his aesthetic project in the history of music; the third relays the case of a presentation by Oswald de Andrade that makes a comparison to the opera Parsifal. From these excerpts, I would like to propose a reading of Mário de Andrade’s musical thought that may be used as a basis to understand his aesthetic thinking.