Guilherme Honorato Lino

Abstract:
[Funchal, Madeira 1861 – Funchal, Madeira 18/02/1940]
Violinist, teacher and regent harmonies. Guilherme Honorato Lino became known by the composition of the pieces for orchestras of harmony, especially for the Recreio Artístico Funchalense and the Recreio Camponês. As professor he taught the practice of the violin to João Ornelas de Abreu, who later became regent of Filarmónica Recreio Camponês.

Biography:
Guilherme Honorato Lino was born around 1861, it is not possible to specify the date. However, his baptism is dated January 13, 1862, in the files of Arquivo Regional da Madeira.
His family has always been connected to music, highlighting his father Nuno Rodrigues who was an exalted violin and mandolin performer and also piano a builder and tuner, founder of several musical groups, whose best example was the Sexteto Nunos. A musical group from the first decades of the 20th century, formed by Nuno Rodrigues and his sons: Guilherme Honorato Lino, Nuno Graceliano Lino and Alfredo Saturnino Lino.
The musician began his career as regent in Filarmónica Recreio Artístico Funchalense in 1892. The harmony often participated in several popular and religious events, reported by the Diário de Notícias, since at the time the social life was mainly centered in these events.
In 1893 the Diário de Notícias published news allusives to the celebrations of the “Santíssimo Sacramento” in the church of São Matinho. Festivals of the popular tradition of Madeira, in which the harmony Recreio Artístico Funchalense participated with great instrumental pieces and dance music, on the regency of Guilherme Honorato Lino.
The recognition of harmony Recreio Artístico Funchalense was distinguished by the quality of plays played and respective regency. In 1895 it was realized a precarious flock in Funchal, a manifestation of a “group of people that will go in the streets to beg for the public charity for own or other advantage”. This organization was concretized by volunteer firefighters “in favor of the victims of the storms on this island”. Guilherme Honorato Lino accompanied this parade with the harmony Recreio Artístico Funchalense.
During the following years the harmony continued to play in the religious festivities and balls through all the island of Madeira. In many events the harmony has played with other groups, like Sexteto Nunos.
The phase of professional growth for Honorato Lino was in the early twentieth century, when he joined Sexteto Nunos, created in 1900, with his brothers Nuno Graceliano Lino and Alfredo Saturnino Nuno.
The Diário de Notícias of the 22 of November of 1903 announced the celebration of Santa Cecile, celebrated in the church of the boarding school, where it played “excellent sextetto Nunos”. The anthem of this feast was accompanied by organ, cello and violin by brothers Alfredo, Guilherme and Nuno Lino.
In 1914 Guilherme Honorato Lino achieved the role of artistic director of the Banda Recreio Camponês, however, in the following year he was replaced by Luís Inácio Gonçalves.
According to the Diário de Notícias of April 4, 1919 a magnificent concert was organized in the Theater Dr. Manuel Arriaga which has the purpose of beneficence, to finance the expenses of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Funchal.
Honorato Lino participated in the concert of the Dr. Manuel Arriaga Theater as a cellist, with Professor Vasco Oliveira, conductor Artur Ângelo, César Rodrigues do Nascimento, João Rodrigues do Nascimento and Maria Emilia Pereira. Contemporary artists of Honorato, who marked the culture of Madeira between the end of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century.
In the decades of 1910 and 1920 Guilherme Honorato Lino dedicated a part of his career in addition to the high salons of society: he actively contributed to the popular music of the balls. Although he has already played in religious festivals his devotion to these events has gained prominence in this period, with the harmony Recreio Camponês.
The Diário de Notícias of March 1914 published that the great instrumental of Guilherme Honorato Lino, animated the liturgical festivities. In the section Religious News the periodical has divulged that “to Camara de Lobos is carried out, the procession of the Passos do Salvador”. Accompany the procession the harmony Recreio Camponez, in the regency of sir Guilherme Honorato Lino.
The presence of the conductor in the popular religious events has been announced frequently in the section Religious News of the Diário de Notícias, mainly in the festivals of the Holy Spirit, with great importance at the regional level.
“On the next Sunday the feasts of the “Holy Spirit” are performed, with cake for the poor in: Câmara de Lobos. In the ball plays harmony Recreio Camponez, of the regency of Sir Guilherme Honorato Lino”.
In the 1920 Honorato Lino maintain the regency of musical groups and participation in popular events or exclusive elites, but in this decade the greatest reference to the musician emerges as a builder and repairer of musical instruments, similar to the arts practiced by his father, Nuno Rodrigues.
The Madeira newspaper reported in November 1924 that “the old organ of Santa Clara, that has just been corrected, by the known musicians gentlemen César do Nascimento and Guilherme Honorato Lino will follow the great orchestra of 50 figures that will be carried out tomorrow, at 8 and half in the morning in the celebration of Santa Cecilia. The same skilled artists were in charge, last year, of the repair of the organ of the main church of Machico.
Guilherme Honorato Lino, died February 18, 1940. After half-century of activity the musician has been known as a teacher, regent of harmonies, violinist and cellist. After his death, his cello probably passed for the property of João Augusto de Sousa, in São Roque, but currently the comings and goings of this instrument are unknown.

Authors:
Camacho, Liliana (19/10/2010). “Guilherme Honorato Lino: um músico do passado”. In Jornal da Madeira: Artes e Educação. Acedido em http://www.jornaldamadeira.pt/not2008.php?Seccao=13&id=169643&sdata=2010-12-10.

Update:
Ventura, Ana (2011). “Guilherme Honorato Lino”. In Dicionário Online de Músicos na Madeira. Funchal: Divisão de Investigação e Documentação, Gabinete Coordenador de Educação Artística, atualizado em 27/06/2011.

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