Ernst Mahle

Mahle was born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany on 3 January 1929.{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/03/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-3-2019/1811546209344/|title= UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019|work=United Press International|date=3 January 2019|accessdate=3 September 2019|archivedate=3 January 2019 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20190103223323/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/03/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-3-2019/1811546209344/|url-status=live|quote=Brazilian composer Ernst Mahle in 1929 (age 90)}} He studied music with Johann Nepomuk David in Stuttgart before coming to Brazil in 1951, and then with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter in Piracicaba. He became a Brazilian citizen in 1962. In 1953, he was one of the founders of the Escola de Música de Piracicaba. After teaching music there, he became artistic director and conductor of the orchestra and choir of the institute, holding these posts for more than fifty years.

In 2005, Mahle composed the opera O Garatuja,{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Ernst Mahle Catálogo de Obras |url=https://abmusica.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/catalogo_ernst-mahle-2020_ultimo-corrigido.pdf |website=Academia Brasileira de Música |publisher=Associação Amigos Mahle |language=Portuguese}} libretto by Eugênio Leandro. The opera was based on the homonymous novel by José de Alencar, which was premiered on 27 April 2006, at the Teatro Municipal de Piracicaba "Dr Losso Netto". He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Music (chair no. 6).

Mahle died in Piracicaba, São Paulo on 12 May 2025, at the age of 96.{{Cite web |date=13 May 2025 |title=Morre o maestro Ernst Mahle, referência na música erudita e criador da Escola de Música de Piracicaba |url=https://g1.globo.com/sp/piracicaba-regiao/noticia/2025/05/13/morre-o-maestro-ernst-mahle-referencia-na-musica-erudita-e-criador-da-escola-de-musica-de-piracicaba.ghtml |access-date=13 May 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}

• Marroquinhas Fru-Fru (1974) opera, libretto by Maria Clara Machado
• A Moreninha (1979) opera, libretto by José Maria Ferreira
• O Garatuja (2006) opera, libretto by Eugênio Leandro
• Isaura (2023) opera https://abmusica.org.br/noticias/ernst-mahle-compoe-a-opera-isaura-com-estreia-prevista-para-2023

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• Paulo Affonso de Moura Ferreira: Ernst Mahle: Catálogo de obras (Brasília: Ministério das Relações Exteriores, 1976).
• Eliane Tokeshi: "As sonatas e sonatinas para violino e piano de Ernst Mahle: Uma abordagem dos aspectos estilísticos", in I Seminário Nacional de Pesquisa em Performance Musical. III: Belo Horizonte, 2000, edited by André Cavazotti, pp. 43–56 (Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2001); also constituting the journal Per musi: Revista de performance musical no. 3 (January–June 2001).

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090221000728/http://www.empem.org.br/ Escola de Música de Piracicaba] {{in lang|pt}} (with short bio)
• [http://www.haryschweizer.com.br/Com_licenca/portugues/ernst_mahle.htm Compositores e obras do CD "Com licença!..."] {{in lang|pt}} (Short bio)
• [http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/mahle Classical Composers Database]
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