Edino Krieger was born in March 17 of 1928 in Brusque, a town in Santa Catarina state. In his childhood, his father taught him how to play the violin and at age of 14, after an concert in Florianopolis, he got a scholarship of the state's governor, Nereu Ramos. In 1943 Edino went to Rio de Janeiro to study the violin with the teacher Edith Reis, in the Conservatorio Brasileiro de Musica (Brazilian Music Conservatory).

In the next year he started his studies of composition with the composer H. J. Koellreuter. In 1945, after only one year of studies, he got the prize Música Viva (Alive Music) with his composition Trio de Sopros and started to be part of the group of the Brazilian composers of Dodecafonism music.

In 1947  the composer got a scholarship at Beckshire Music Center, getting the prize. In the United States he studied the violin with W. Nowinsky and composition with Darius Milhaud, Aaron Copland and Peter Menin.

In 1949, he was back to Rio de Janeiro, where worked in the Radio Roquete Pinto (Roquete Pinto Broadcast) and as musical critic in the "Tribuma da Imprensa" newpaper. Im 1956 he went to London and studied composition with Lennox Berkeley. He organized the Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional (National Symphonic Orchestra) from 1960 to 1964).

In July of 1998 went to Belgium to watch his Concerto para dois violões e Orquestra de cordas (Concert for two guitar and string orchestra), played by the Duo Assad. He is an important member of the Brazilian Music Academy.

His music is wrote in a new classical style. His firts composition were romantics; after wrote dodecafonist music, and after went to the new classical style, with some National influences. In his new works, Edino Krieger uses all the musical resorts, as serial music for example. He composed orchestral music, scores for the piano, chamber music, choir, etc.

Bibliography:

Grande Enciclopédia Larousse Cultural

Vasco Mariz - Figuras da Música brasileira Contemporânea
      Universidade de Brasília, 1970, segunda edição.