Paulinho Nogueira

Nogueira, rear right, with Gildo De Stefano, rear left, at the Guitar's International Festival

Paulinho Nogueira (8 October 1929 – 2 August 2003) was a Brazilian guitarist, composer and singer.

Biography

Nogueira was born in Campinas on 8 October 1929. He was an eclectic composer, his influences ranging from bossa nova to Bach. Paulinho Nogueira designed the craviola, a guitar with a sloping bout and offset body shape. He was the teacher of Toquinho.

He died in São Paulo on 2 August 2003.

Craviola

The Craviola is an acoustic guitar designed by Paulinho Nogueira and built by manufacturer Giannini.

Craviolas have a distinct asymmetric body shape that deviates from the upper and lower bouts of classical guitars. Its timbre is said to resemble a combination of sounds from a harpsichord and a viola caipira, hence the portmanteau (Cravo is the Portuguese word for harpsichord).

Craviolas can be six-string or twelve-string (either nylon or steel) and are produced solely by Giannini.

Discography

• A voz do violão (1959) Columbia
• Brasil, violão e sambalanço (1960) RGE
• Menino desce daí/Tema do boneco de palha (1961) RGE 78
• Sambas de ontem e de hoje (1961) RGE
• Outros sambas de ontem e de hoje (1962) RGE
• Mais sambas de ontem e de hoje (1963) RGE
• A nova bossa é violão (1964) RGE
• O fino do violão (1965) RGE
• Sambas e marchas da nova geração (1966) RGE
• Paulinho Nogueira (1967) RGE
• Um festival de violão (1968) RGE
• Isto É Sambalanço (1969) SBA
• Paulinho Nogueira canta suas composições (1970) RGE
• Dez bilhões de neurônios (1972) Continental
• Paulinho Nogueira, violão e samba (1973) Continental 10.108
• Simplesmente (1974) Continental
• Moda de craviola (1975) Continental
• Antologia do violão (1976) Phonogram
• Nas asas do moinho (1979) Alequim
• O fino do violão volume 2 (1980) Bandeirantes/WEA
• Tom Jobim – Retrospectiva (1981) Cristal/WEA
• Água branca (1983) Eldorado
• Tons e semitons (1986) Independente
• Late night guitar – The Brazilian sound of Paulinho Nogueira (1992)
• Coração violão (1995) Movieplay
• Brasil musical – Série música viva – Paulinho Nogueira e Alemã (1996) Tom Brasil
• Sempre amigos (1999) Movieplay
• Reflexões (1999) Malandro Records
• Toquinho Paulinho Nogueira (1998), with Toquinho
• Chico Buarque – Primeiras composições (2002) Trama

Further reading

• De Stefano, Gildo, Saudade Bossa Nova: musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi del Brasile, Preface by Chico Buarque, Introduction by Gianni Minà, Logisma Editore, Florence 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6