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Defense of the Doctoral Thesis | António José de Carvalho Pereira
Jury for the PhD thesis of António José de Carvalho Pereira:
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Prof. Dr. António José Vassalo Neves Lourenço, Associate Professor at the Universidade de Aveiro and researcher at INET-md (Advisor);
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Prof. Dr. Fernando José Mendes Gonçalves, Full Professor at the Universidade de Aveiro;
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Prof. Dr. Ana Telles Béreau, Full Professor at the Universidade de Évora;
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Prof. Dr. Tiago José Garcia Vieira Neto, Coordinating Professor at the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa;
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Prof. Dr. Clarissa Gomes Foletto, Junior researcher at the Universidade de Aveiro and researcher at INET-mdd;
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Prof. Doutora Rui Miguel Silva Sampaio Dias, Adjunct Professor at thedo Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco.
François Broos (1903-2002), a distinguished Belgian violist, was the main promoter of the viola as an autonomous instrument in Portugal. Although several texts mention the important role of this violist, they do not respond in depth to the relevance and impact that François Broos had on the performative and pedagogical practices of the violist after his arrival in the country in the mid-20th century. Based on interviews with students and family of François Broos, as well as the collection, analysis and comparison of materials, this work seeks to outline the course of this violist's musical life and verify the procedures in which his performative and pedagogical activities were developed in Portugal. It then seeks to verify the impact of its emancipatory role on the performative and pedagogical practice of viola in Portugal. This work allowed us to ascertain that François Broos developed an intense and important activity in Portugal that had repercussions on the emancipation of the performative practice of the viola in the country and consequently on the triggering of the writing of new Portuguese works dedicated to this instrument, as well as on the emancipation of the pedagogical practice both in terms of attracting students to learn this instrument, as well as in the designation, application and composition of written material for the specificities of the viola.
