ALVES DE SOUSA, Berta Candida
(*1906)> PIANIST · CONDUCTOR · LECTURER · MUSIC CRITIC · COMPOSER
ALVES DE SOUSA, Berta Candida Portuguese pianist, conductor, lecturer, music critic and composer. Liege, Belgium, April 8, 1906. Her family came from Oporto and returned there when Bertha was very young. She studied at the Oporto Conservatory under Moreira de Sa, Luis Costa, Lucien Lambert and Claudio Carneyro and graduated in the piano. In Paris from 1927 to 1929, she studied the piano under Wilhelm Backhaus and Theodore Szanto, composition under George Migot and improved her piano technique…