Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor.
Chiquinha Gonzaga was born in Rio de Janeiro, from a mulatto mother and a wealthy white father ? after she was born her father became a marshal. Her godfather was Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias and one of her best friends was the first lady of Brazil, Nair de Tefé.
She fought for the end of slavery in Brazil. Gonzaga received an education that would ordinarily have led her to be a ?sinhazinha?, a respect...
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