Real name: Arno Roberto von Buettner

Arno Roberto von Buettner (1947-2014), was born in Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil). He graduated in Musical Composition and Conducting at Unicamp, where he was a Harmony and Piano teacher from 1994 to 1999. While still a student, Bebeto published an analysis of the cadences of five piano concertos by Heitor Villa-Lobos, by the Unicamp publishing house, with editions in Portuguese and English.

Considered a master by different generations of musicians, reported an interview published in the Correio Popular de Campinas on October 17, 2013: “he reigned in Campinas in the 80s and 90s, in a period when jazz and popular music of the highest quality were the soundtrack of most nightclubs”. According to the newspaper, after that he lived a self-exile.

Bebeto was in the first musical composition and conducting class at Unicamp, in 1979. He returned to the academy as a Harmony and Piano teacher at the IA Department of Music, where he worked until 1999.

The musician was the author of several titles, among them a method that added the most diverse trends of modern harmony, which generated the book "Expansão Harmônica: uma Questão de Timbre". The work is aimed at musicians - instrumentalists and arrangers – and students.

Text: Isabel Gardenal
Source: https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/noticias/2014/08/06/morre-o-pianista-arno-roberto-von-buettner