Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria

Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria (5 April 1873 – 9 Sept 1938) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, poet, singer and teacher who used the pseudonym Stella Bomilcar. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of João Paulo Gomes de Mattos and Joana de Alencar Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos.

She first studied piano in Fortaleza, and she was drawn towards music, literature, and design. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1900, and in 1901 she enrolled in the Instituto Nacional de Música, where she studied voice, theory, and solfeggio with Frederico Nascimento; composition with Alberto Nepomuceno; and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Francisco Braga. She became a singing monitor at the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1905, an adjunct professor in 1907, and a theory and solfeggio professor in 1911.^[1]^[2] She went on to study voice in Paris in 1914 with Mme. Bauer, and later returned to Europe to study in Berlin in 1928.

As a teacher, she would organize salons featuring her students at a home on Rua Fonte da Saudade, creating a well-known space for musical gatherings.^[3] Celeste Jaguaribe combined several aspects of her artistry into her career. In addition to teaching at the Instituto Nacional de Música and later at the Colégio Imaculada Conceiçao, she possessed a light soprano voice, and sang, taught voice, drew, painted, wrote poetry, and composed.

Celeste Jaguaribe began composing at the age of 13, writing waltzes and mazurkas, and developed her compositional voice further in 1928. Critics lauded her artistic sensibility as both poet and composer, and she frequently wrote for voice and piano,^[4] and developed pedagogical materials for solfeggio: Solfejo especial para orfeão (3 books),^[5] the Curso Superior de Solfejo, and Solfejos graduados (2 volumes).

Works

Selected works include:

Piano Four Hands:

Quem me dera!

Choral:

2 voices

12 vocalises a 2 vozes
Cantos Recreativos e educativos - 1a série, a 2 vozes (soprano e contralto)
Andorinhas
Canção da velhinha
Conselho (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Esperança (Text: St. B)
Meu coração
Minha sombra (Text: St. B)
Mocidade (Text: St. B)
Oração
Perfumes e luzes (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Prece (Text: St. B)
Recompensa
A roseirinha florida (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
O tufão e a brisa (Text: St. B)

3 voices

Cantos Recreativos e educativos - 2a série, a 3 vozes (soprano, meio-soprano e contralto)
Aurora (Text: J. Ribeiro)
Mágoas da noite
O vendaval (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)

4 voices

Lua cheia
Padre-Nosso No. 1
Padre-Nosso No. 2

5 voices

Madrugada

Voice and Piano

Aquele amor (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Berceuse (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Chromo (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Covardia
Interrogação (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
O jasmineiro (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
O menino curioso
Minha vida é assim, assim (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
A morte da boneca (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
A noite
Num postal (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Olhos azuis (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
A pedra (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Penas de garça (Text: Auta de Souza)
Poente
O ponte (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Rosas (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Saudade
Tão só
Treva, penumbra e luz
Trovas (Text: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria)
Vida fugaz^[6]

References

^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
^ Enciclopédia da música brasileira: popular, erudita e folclórica. 1998.
^ Rocha, Eli Maria (1986). Nós, as mulheres (notícia sobre as compositoras brasileiras) [We, women (news about Brazilian women composers)] (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro: Rabaço Editora e Impressora Ltda. pp. 44–45.
^ "Celeste Jaguaribe". Música Brasilis. Retrieved 20 March 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Baroncelli, Nilcéia Cleide da Silva (1987). Mulheres compositoras - elenco e repertório [Women composers - cast and repertoire] (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Roswitha Kempf Editores. p. 143. ISBN 9788527000024.
^ "Composer: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria (1873-1938)". Retrieved 10 January 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

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[1] Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

[2] Enciclopédia da música brasileira: popular, erudita e folclórica. 1998.

[3] Rocha, Eli Maria (1986). Nós, as mulheres (notícia sobre as compositoras brasileiras) [We, women (news about Brazilian women composers)] (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro: Rabaço Editora e Impressora Ltda. pp. 44–45.

[4] "Celeste Jaguaribe". Música Brasilis. Retrieved 20 March 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[5] Baroncelli, Nilcéia Cleide da Silva (1987). Mulheres compositoras - elenco e repertório [Women composers - cast and repertoire] (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Roswitha Kempf Editores. p. 143. ISBN 9788527000024.

[6] "Composer: Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria (1873-1938)". Retrieved 10 January 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

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