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Alfredo Keil

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Alfredo Cristiano Keil (3 July 1850 – 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese composer, painter, poet, archaeologist and art collector. Keil is best known as the composer of the Portuguese national anthem, A Portuguesa. Life Keil was born in Lisbon, the son of the tailor of the court, Johann Christian Keil (later João Cristiano Keil) and his wife Maria Josefina Stellflug, both of German origin. The boy developed an interest in both painting and music; at the age of 12 he composed the work Pensée Musicale and dedicated it to his mother. After studying painting in Munich and Nuremberg with the German romantic painters Wilhelm von Kaulbach and August von Kreling, he returned to Portugal in 1870, due to the Franco-Prussian War. Back home, he developed into a sought-after romantic painter. Painter At the time, the art world was moving towards Realism and Naturalist generation, but Keil still gained success with his melancholic intimate scenes and landscapes. Despite never becoming a full-time painter – also developing interests in poetry and musical composition – he continued painting and exhibiting throughout his life, and left hundreds of works. Predominantly a landscape painter, he also pai

Alfredo Napoleão

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Alfredo Napoleão dos Santos (31 January 1852, Porto – 20 November 1917, Lisbon) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. He was the youngest of three Napoleão pianist and composer siblings, the others being Arthur Napoleão (1843–1925), and Aníbal Napoleão (1845–1880). Biography Their parents were Portuguese, musician Alexandre Napoleão and Joaquina Maria dos Santos. The latter died, when Alfredo was only a year old. The father worked in London, and Alfredo spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother in Porto, his birthplace. In 1858 he was brought to London to study with a certain Professor Wood. These studies continued up to 1868, when he went to Brazil, like his two brothers. In 1869 he gave his debut recital in Rio de Janeiro, with great success. He made an extensive tour through the country and settled in Buenos Aires, and then in Montevideo, where he taught piano. In 1879 he was again in Rio de Janeiro and for some years toured the northern parts of Brazil. At that time he was at the height of his fame. Returning to Portugal in 1882, he gave concerts in Lisbon and Porto, then London and Paris. In 1889 he went to Brazil again and made a tour through the entire continent. In

Álvaro Cassuto

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Álvaro Leon Cassuto Cassuto studied with Herbert von Karajan, whom he admired. External links * * *

Andreia Pinto Correia

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Andreia Pinto-Correia (born 23 August 1971) is a Portuguese composer based in the United States. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she has performed for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute and New York Philharmonic. Biography Andreia Pinto-Correia was born on 23 August 1971 in Lisbon. She is the daughter of literature professors, with her father João David Pinto Correia being one of her creative collaborators. Raised in her birthplace, she was influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose stories her mother did Portuguese-language translations of, as well as the medieval literature her father would read to her before bedtime. She performed at the 2012 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute; Rob Hubbard of the St. Paul Pioneer Press said that her “evocative soundscapes … certainly have a future there”. Joshua Kosman criticized her symphonic poem “Alfama” at its 2013 premiere at the Berkeley Symphony, saying that its layered nature “is so gray and unattractive – densely dissonant without pointing in any clear harmonic direction – that the effect is muted”. In 2015, Pinto-Correia was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. In 2020, she was awarded an American Academy

Annibal Napoleão

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Annibal Napoleão dos Santos (3 January — 1880) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. He was the second of three Napoleão pianist and composer siblings, the elder being Arthur Napoleão (1843–1925), the younger Alfredo Napoleão (1852–1917). Annibal is the least important among them, partly because of his weak health and partly of his premature death. First studied music with his father, then with Sproule in Ireland. ;For piano *Op.1 - Le Gladiateur, Grande galop de bravoure *Op.2 - Les Perles d’Andalousie, Six danses caractéristiques *Op.3 - La Pluie de roses (A chuva de rozas), Grande polka de concert No. 1 *Op.4 - Rêve du jeune âge, Nocturne No. 1 *Op.5 - Impromptu-Valse *Op.6 - Ernani, Transcription de concert *Op.7 - Il Arco di Sant’Anna, Opera de Sá Noronha, Fantaisie-caprice (Fantaisie de salon) *Op.10 - Dans les forêts du Brésil, Souvenir de voyage, Impromptu *Op.11 - Souvenir, Nocturne No. 2 *Op.12 - Inquiétude, Idylle *Op.13 - Vision d’amour, Nocturne No. 3 *Op.14 - Tourbillon de fleurs, Grande polka de concert No. 2 *Op.15 - Je t’aime, Romance sans paroles *Op.16 - Minuit, Impromptu No. 2 *Op.17 - La Douleur, Romance sans paroles *Op.18 - Giroflé-Girofla, Fantaisie *Op.19

António Chagas Rosa

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António Chagas Rosa (born 1960) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music. His output includes chamber operas, song-cycles and numerous works for chamber and symphony orchestras. His work has been played all over Europe as well as in Asia and America. Biography Born in Lisbon, he studied Piano at the Conservatório Nacional and History at the New University of Lisbon. From 1984 to 1987, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon, Chagas Rosa studied Contemporary Piano and Chamber Music with Alexander Hrisanide at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Between 1987 and 1992, with a scholarship granted by the Portuguese government, he studied composition at the Rotterdams Conservatory under Klaas de Vries and Peter Jan Wagemans. In The Netherlands, António Chagas Rosa worked as a repetiteur and assistant at the Dutch opera house, Het Muziektheater, and became a teacher of the opera class at the Sweelinck Conservatorium. Among other productions, he worked with Robert Wilson on De Materie by Louis Andriessen, and with Oliver Knussen during the rehearsals of “Die Glückliche Hand”, by Arnold Schönberg. As a pianist he took part in many of the con

António Pinho Vargas

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António Pinho Vargas (born 15 August 1951 in Vila Nova de Gaia) is a Portuguese composer and pianist specializing in jazz and contemporary music. He has also authored books, essays, and articles on music. Career After earning a degree in history from the University of Porto, he studied music at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1987 to 1990, graduating with a degree in Musical Composition. In 1991, he began teaching musical composition at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon. His first jazz album, Outros Lugares, was released in 1983. He has also composed soundtracks for Portuguese films and theatrical plays. Since his return from the Netherlands, he has primarily focused on classical composition, creating operas, orchestral and ensemble works. His pieces have been recorded by groups such as the Arditti Quartet, Galliard Ensemble, Royal Scottish Academy Brass, and the Northern Sinfonia. * 1983 Outros Lugares * 1985 Cores e Aromas * 1987 As Folhas Novas Mudam de Cor * 1989 Os Jogos do Mundo * 1991 Selos e borboletas * 1995 Monodia * 1996 A Luz e a Escuridão * 2001 Versos * 2003 Os Dias Levantados * 2008 Solo * 2009 Solo II * 2011 Concerto No IST Improvisações * 2014 Step by Step, D

António Sala

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António Manuel Sala Mira Gomes (born in 1949) is a Portuguese radio and television presenter and journalist, as well as a singer and songwriter. He has worked in various capacities throughout his life, including as a singer, music producer and composer, journalist, radio director, radio host and television presenter. After a quite noteworthy career with the Maranata musical ensemble Life and career António Sala was born in 1949 in Vilar de Andorinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, in Northern Portugal. It was on the radio that António Sala stood out the most, making his debut in 1967, at Rádio Ribatejo and Emissores Associados de Lisboa, from where he later moved to Radiodifusão Portuguesa. At the end of the 1960s, he took his first steps in music taking advantage of his studies in choral singing. He came to prominence as a member of the Maranata, a music group founded in 1972. In 1978, he was voted announcer of the year, in what was the first of many awards he won thanks to his work as a radio presenter and director, mainly on Rádio Renascença’s “Despertar” program, which aired for 18 years. Between 1981 and 1994, with the Renascença’s “Despertar”, the morning radio show that was a popularity

Armando José Fernandes

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Armando José Fernandes (Lisbon, 26 July 1906 - Lisbon, 3 May 1983) was a neoclassical Portuguese composer; with Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, and Pedro do Prado, one of the “group of four” who dominated mid-20th-century Portuguese music. After studying at the National Conservatory of Lisbon (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa in Portuguese), he won a three-year scholarship to Paris and became a pupil of, among others, Nadia Boulanger. Originally trained as a concert pianist, Fernandes came to concentrate more on composition and teaching. He composed, among other works, a cello sonata, a violin concerto, and numerous piano pieces. His work, usually of an intimate character, occasionally contains virtuosic passages. It has been described as " pursuing a more conventional neoclassical path, albeit with great finesse". Most of his works were written for the national broadcasting station. From 1940 onwards he taught at the Academia de Amadores de Música in Lisbon, and from 1953 to 1976 at the Lisbon Conservatory. He also produced editions of early music from Portugal. Prizes *Moreira de Sá Prize for composition (1944) *Prize of the Círculo de Cultura Musical (1946) No

Arthur Napoleão dos Santos

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Arthur Napoleão dos Santos (6 March 1843 – 12 May 1925) was a Portuguese composer, pianist, instrument dealer and music publisher. He was brother of Aníbal Napoleão and Alfredo Napoleão, who like Arthur were pianists and composers. Biography He was born in Porto, Portugal, and gave his first piano concert at the age of 7. When he was 8, supported by Ferdinand II of Portugal, Napoleão gave his first international concerts, visiting cities such as London (where he played at the Portuguese Embassy in the city) and Paris. Thereafter he toured all over Europe and America, sometimes playing duets with Henri Vieuxtemps or Henryk Wieniawski. At age 15, he performed in New York and critic Richard Storrs Willis attended “out of curiosity to see the sort of child that tickles Europe”. Willis was impressed and noted him as “an extraordinary performer… His touch is exquisitely full of tenderness; his precision almost unerring; his power more than respectable, and his rounding of musical thought perfectly delightful.” In 1866 he settled in Brazil, living in Rio de Janeiro. Here he set up shop to sell instruments and publish sheet music. He taught piano lessons, one of his pupils was Chiquinha

Barbara of Portugal

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Barbara of Portugal (Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa; 4 December 1711 – 27 August 1758) was an Infanta of Portugal, and a Queen of Spain by marriage to Ferdinand VI. Life Infanta of Portugal Barbara was the daughter of King John V of Portugal and his wife Maria Anna of Austria. Their marriage remained childless for nearly three years, and thus the king made a promise to God that if an heir to the throne was born, a great convent would be built as a sign of gratitude. Upon the birth of a daughter in late 1711 began the building of the Convent of Mafra. The child was baptised Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa, honouring a number of saints and relatives, and styled Princess of Brazil as the heiress presumptive to the Portuguese throne. She was usually referred to as Bárbara or Maria Bárbara after Saint Barbara, the saint of her birthday, a name never used before among Portuguese royalty. Two years later, Barbara’s mother gave birth to a son, Pedro, and she ceased to be heir presumptive. Pedro died at the age of two, but by that time, the queen had already had another son, Joseph, and hence Barbara never became heiress presumptive aga

Berta Alves de Sousa

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Berta Alves de Sousa (8 April 1906 – 1 August 1997) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. Biography Candida Berta Alves de Sousa was born in Liège, Belgium. She grew up in Porto, Portugal and studied at the Music Conservatory. She continued her studies in Paris with Wilhelm Backhaus and Theodor Szántó for piano and George Mingot for composition, and in Lisbon with Vianna da Motta. She also studied orchestral conducting with Clemens Krauss in Berlin and Pedro de Freitas Branco in Lisbon. After completing her studies, Alves de Sousa took a position at the Music Conservatory of Porto in 1946 teaching chamber music, (she later became chair) and performed as a concert pianist, accompanist and conductor. She also worked as a music critic for the newspaper O Primeiro de Janeiro in Porto. In 1941, she was awarded the Prix de Sa Moreira established by Orpheon Portuense. Alves de Sousa died in Porto at the age of 91, and her documents are archived by the Porto Conservatory of Music. Works Alves de Sousa composed chamber music, choral music and symphonic works. She also experimented with Symmetry Sonora, a method developed by composer Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira. Selected works include: *Abr

Carlos Azevedo

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Carlos Azevedo (29 March 1949 – 26 October 2012) was a Portuguese composer and pianist. Biography Having studied composition with Jorge Peixinho in Lisbon, he was a 20th-century music composer and a jazz pianist. As a teacher and director of the Jazz School at the Hot Club of Portugal, he taught and influenced many Portuguese musicians. Among others, he has been accompanied on stage by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (Academy Award winner for Best Original Score in 2005), Steve Potts, Carlos Alberto Augusto, Paleka and Maria João. He performed in several Music Festivals such as the Bruges Jazz Festival in Belgium. An inspired melodist and intriguing harmonizer, his musical style was based on the fusion of several musical idioms and in this domain his work with traditional fado forms and improvised music is considered particularly unique and relevant. Prizes He won a “Gold Leopard” Award for Best Original Score in Lucerne, Switzerland for the film “Zefiro”, a film by José Alvaro Morais His music has also won 1st prize on various occasions for Best Original Score with other films and for other works such as Marcha da Bica (Bica March) in the Lisbon summer festivity called “Santos Populares, marc

Carlos Seixas

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José António Carlos de Seixas (; 11 June 1704 – 25 August 1742) was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas succeeded his father as the organist for Coimbra Cathedral at the age of fourteen. In 1720, he departed for the capital, Lisbon, where he was to serve as the organist for the royal chapel, one of the highest offices for a musician in Portugal, a position which earned him a knighthood. Much of Seixas’ music rests in an ambiguous transitional period from the learned style of the 17th century to the galant style of the 18th century. Life Seixas was born in Coimbra to Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes. From a young age, he was surrounded by musical activity; his father served as the cathedral organist, and the flurry of musical activity in the local monastery of Santa Cruz had an equally important role in his musical training. In 1718, a few days before his father’s death, Seixas succeeded his father as cathedral organist. Two years after, in 1720, he moved to Lisbon to take up his new position in the court of John V of Portugal as court organist and harpsichordist. Citing his elegance and agili

Clotilde Rosa

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Maria Clotilde Belo de Carvalho Rosa Franco (11 May 1930 – 24 November 2017), known as Clotilde Rosa, was a Portuguese harpist, pedagogue and composer. Biography Clotilde Rosa was born in Queluz, Portugal, to José Rosa (1895–1939), violinist and tenor, and Branca Belo de Carvalho Rosa (1906–1940), pianist and harpist. She was the younger sister of , who became an architect and sculptor; and the sister-in-law of Helena Almeida. Rosa began piano lessons at age ten with Ivone Santos, and harp lessons at the age of twelve under Cecilia Borba at Lisbon’s National Conservatoire. Between 1960 and 1963 she continued her harp studies with several scholarships in Amsterdam with Phia Berghout, in Paris with Jacqueline Borot, and in Cologne with Hans Zingel. From 1963 until 1966 Rosa also took part in the Darmstadt Summer Courses, directed by Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Germany. After completing her studies, she worked as a harp soloist with various orchestras and ensembles. In 1965 Rosa took part in the first Portuguese happening at Galeria Divulgação, along with António Aragão, E. M. Melo e Castro, Sallette Tavares (poet), Manuel Baptista, Jorge Peixinho (composer) and Mário Falcão (another ha

Constança Capdeville

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Constança Capdeville (16 March 19374 February 1992) was a Portuguese pianist, percussionist, music educator and composer. Early years Constança Capdeville was born in Barcelona and lived in the village of Caxias as a child. She came from an artistic family and in her youth was exposed to creative geniuses including Salvador Dalí. She wrote piano compositions at an early age, and studied piano and composition at the Lisbon Conservatorio Nacional, where she received a diploma in Higher Education in Music. Capdeville was a prolific composer. By 1969 she had begun to have her works commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for its orchestra. She produced approximately 100 pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles and a variety of soloists using different instruments. She also composed music for films and plays, ballet/dance and ‘dramatized’ staged performances. From early on, her music revealed close ties to the dramatic arts and to the imagery of the human condition evoked though sound and Mise en scène. Capdeville’s compositions were laden with multiple artistic perception. During her life, she was a close artistic and personal friend of music genius Jorge Peixinho who had him

Davide Perez

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Davide Perez (1711 – 30 October 1778) was an Italian opera composer born in Naples of Italian parents, and later resident court composer at Lisbon from 1752. He staged three operas on librettos of Metastasio at Lisbon with huge success in 1753, 1754, and 1755. Following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, Perez turned from opera mostly to church music. Early years Perez was born in Naples, the son of Giovanni Perez and Rosalina Serrari, both Neapolitans. At the age of 11 he became a student at the Conservatorio di S Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained until 1733, studying counterpoint with Francesco Mancini, singing and keyboard playing with Giovanni Veneziano, and violin with Francesco Barbella. On completion of his studies, Perez immediately entered the service of the Sicilian Prince d’Aragona, Naselli. From 1734 date his first known pieces, the Latin cantatas Ilium Palladio astu Subducto Expugnatum and Palladium performed in Palermo’s Collegio della Società di Gesù, for the laurelling festivities. In the following years, he was active both in Palermo and Naples, as his patron became Chamberlain of the newly crowned king, Carlo I. His first opera, La nemica amante, was composed

Denis of Portugal

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Denis (, ; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (Rei Lavrador) and the Poet King (Rei Poeta), was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325. Denis was the eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile, and grandson of Afonso II of Portugal. Denis succeeded his father in 1279. He was married to Elizabeth of Aragon, who was later canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Denis ruled Portugal for over 46 years. He worked to reorganise his country’s economy and gave an impetus to Portuguese agriculture. He ordered the planting of a large pine forest (that still exists today) near Leiria to prevent soil degradation that threatened the region, and to serve as a source of raw materials for the construction of the royal ships. He was also known for his poetry, which constitutes an important contribution to the development of Portuguese as a literary language. Early life and background Born on 9 October 1261 in Lisbon, Denis was the eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal and Beatrice of Castile, an illegitimate daughter of King Afonso X of Castile. Beatrice and Afonso were married 1253 to settle a dispute regarding the sover

Duarte Lobo

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Duarte Lobo (c. 1565 – 24 September 1646; Latinized as Eduardus Lupus) was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was one of the most famous Portuguese composers of the time, together with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, composers who all began their academic studies as students of Manuel Mendes. Along with John IV, King of Portugal, they represent the “golden age” of Portuguese polyphony. Life Details of his life are sparse. He was born in Alcáçovas, in Alentejo, southern Portugal. He is known to have been a choir boy at Évora where he subsequently studied with Manuel Mendes. His first position was as mestre de capela of the cathedral of Évora sometime before 1589, he became maestro di cappella at the Hospital Real, Lisbon. By 1591 he was appointed as mestre de capela at the cathedral in Lisbon, a position he held till 1639. This was the most prestigious musical appointment in the country. He also served as director of the Seminary of São Bartolomeu, and was also a professor of music at the ‘Colégio do Claustro da Sé’ (College at the Holy See Cloisters) in Lisbon, where he taught Manuel Machado. While chronologically his life overlapped with the b

Elvira de Freitas

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Elvira de Freitas (1927 – 2015) was a composer, a pianist, and one of the first female orchestral conductors in Portugal. Early life and training Elvira Manuela Fernanda de Freitas was born in Lisbon on 8 June 1927. She was the daughter of the composer and conductor, Frederico de Freitas. At the age of 17 she entered the National Conservatory of Lisbon, studying piano with Lourenço Varela Cid and composition with Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos and with António Eduardo de Costa Ferreira, who had also been her father’s teacher. She later studied for four years with Fernando Lopes-Graça. Granted a scholarship from the French government in 1958 and from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1959, she continued her studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen. Career From 1957, De Freitas taught at the Camões Secondary School, one of the most-prestigious schools in Lisbon. Between 1974 and 1978 she taught at the music school of the National Conservatory and from 1978 she taught at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon. As well as pieces of light music, De Freitas composed songs based on poems by renowned Portugues

Emmanuel Nunes

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Emmanuel Nunes (31 August 1941 – 2 September 2012) was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964. Biography Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes-Graça at the university (1962–64). He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1963–65), and in 1964 moved to Paris. A year later he moved to Cologne and enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and studied composition with Henri Pousseur, electronic music with Jaap Spek, and phonetics with Georg Heike, while also taking courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the third and fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1965–66 and 1966–67. In 1971 he was awarded the Premier Prix d´Esthetique Musicale in the class of Marcel Beaufils at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, in 1999 won the UNESCO Composition Prize, and in 2000 was the winner of the Pessoa Prize. From the 1980s he took on teaching roles, amongst other places at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Harvard University in the US, at the Paris Conservatoire, and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. From 1986

Estêvão Lopes Morago

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Estêvão Lopes Morago () (c. 1575 in Vallecas, Spain – 1630 in Viseu, Portugal) was a Spanish-born composer who studied, lived, worked and died in Portugal. He is one of the most important polyphonists in the music history of Portugal. Another representative of the high level of cultural interchanges between the two countries, as some of the highest figures of the peninsular cultural history have moved around between the two countries freely and mostly in a way unrelated to the political events of the time (Diego Velázquez was of Portuguese origin; and Alonso Sánchez Coello are some of the examples). Life Lopes Morago was born in Vallecas, near Madrid, but he passed the vast majority of his life in Portugal. He was a student of Filipe de Magalhães at the Cathedral of Évora, where he obtained his licentiate degree. After that, in August 1599, he went to the Cathedral of Viseu where he was appointed canon and mestre de capela. In 1626, the chapter of the Cathedral allowed him to go to Lisbon to publish his works. These included the Livro Comum and the Vesperal, which have survived. The place and year of his death are uncertain. There are indications that Morago moved to Spain and died

Fernando Lopes-Graça

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Fernando Lopes-Graça (17 December 1906 – 27 November 1994) was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist. Lopes-Graça was born in Tomar, and was influenced by Portuguese popular music, which he also studied, continuing the work of the composer and musicologist Francisco de Lacerda. He was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party and strenuously opposed the Estado Novo and its leader António de Oliveira Salazar. He completed the Dicionário de Música (Dictionary of Music), started by his teacher, Tomás Borba, himself a composer. He died in Parede, near Cascais. Chronology * 1906: 17 December: birth in Tomar (where he would start his piano studies). * 1924: becomes a student at the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa. * 1927: becomes a student of Vianna da Motta’s Classe de Virtuosidade. * 1931: obtains the Composition Degree. In the same year he is arrested and expelled to Alpiarça. * 1934: wins a scholarship to study in France, which he is later denied for political reasons. * 1937: goes to Paris, where he studies with composition and orchestration with Charles Koechlin. * 1938: The “Maison de la Culture de Paris” commissions «La fiévre du temps» (ballet-revue). Harmonisation

Filipe da Madre de Deus

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Frei Filipe da Madre de Deus (Lisbon, c. 1630 – Seville, c. 1688 or 1690) was a Portuguese Baroque composer. Life Filipe da Madre de Deus was born in Lisbon, about 1630. Although he lacked a deep knowledge of music theory, he was a skilled composer and vihuelist at the court of Philip IV of Spain (Philip III of Portugal until 1640). In 1654, John IV of Portugal heard about the notoriety of Madre de Deus and hired him for the Portuguese court. Two years later, John IV died and was succeeded by Afonso VI. Sometime between April 1660 and August 1661, Afonso VI nominated Madre de Deus as mestre da câmara de música real (“master of the royal chamber music”). In 1668, Peter II was appointed regent for Afonso VI, his insane brother, and all his former employees were taken off the royal payroll. Thus, Filipe da Madre de Deus had to return to Spain in 1668. He was succeeded by the renowned António Marques Lésbio as master of the royal chamber music of Portugal. Madre de Deus retired to the monastery of the barefooted Mercedarians of San Laureano in Seville. He continued as chapel master of this monastery until at least 1688, the year of his last known work. He probably died there about 1688

Francine Benoît

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Francine Benoît (18941990) was a musician, teacher, composer, conductor, and music critic. She played an active role in Portuguese feminist organizations and was an opponent of the Estado Novo dictatorship, which ruled between 1933 and 1974. Born in France, she lived most of her life in Portugal and became a naturalised Portuguese citizen in 1929. Early life Francine Germaine Van Gool Benoît was born in Périgueux in the Dordogne department of France on 30 July 1894, to a Belgian mother and a French father. Her father was an engineer and had already taken his family to Algeria, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain because of his work, when the family arrived in Portugal in 1906. They settled in Setúbal where her father had a job assembling machines for a fish-canning factory. She was first taught the piano by her mother, and also had private lessons, before studying the piano at the Academia de Amadores de Música in Lisbon. She later graduated with distinction in piano and harmony from the National Conservatory of Lisbon, where she was a student of Alexandre Rey Colaço. Benoît then returned to France to study composition with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris between 1917 and

Francisco António de Almeida

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Francisco António de Almeida (c. 1702–1754) was a Portuguese composer and organist, standing as one of the greatest names in portuguese Baroque music. From 1722 to 1726 he was a royal scholar in Rome. In 1724, Pier Leone Ghezzi drew his caricature, describing him as “a young but excellent composer of concertos and church music who sang with extreme taste”. He returned to Portugal in 1726, where he became organist of the Royal and Patriarchal Chapel. In 1728, the first of his serenatas, Il trionfo della virtù, was performed in Lisbon at the palace of Cardinal João da Mota e Silva. The serenata for six voices, Il Trionfo d’Amore, was first performed at the Ribeira Palace on 27th December 1729, the feast of St. John the Baptist, with King John V in attendance. His comic opera, La pazienza di Socrate, was performed at the royal palace in 1733 and it was the first Italian opera in Portugal. He was hired by the King to teach the harpsichord to the young Infanta Barbara of Portugal. A contemporary diarist states that Almeida composed music for the popular performances of presépios (Nativity scenes) in the Mouraria quarter of Lisbon. Despite claims of him dying in the Lisbon earthquake of

Heliodoro de Paiva

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Dom Heliodoro de Paiva (fl. Coimbra, 1552) was a Portuguese composer, philosopher, and theologian. Life Heliodoro de Paiva was born in Lisbon (date unknown). He studied at the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra, where he took the holy orders as an Augustinian regular capitulary. He was remarkable for the qualities he revealed in a wide variety of subjects: apart from musician and composer, he was well versed in the Greek, Latin, and Hebraic languages, and he was a good philosopher and theologian. As a musician, he played several instruments with skill and he was an esteemed singer. Work Paiva’s work can be found in the music manuscripts of the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra (now kept at the library of the University of Coimbra). He composed masses, motets, and Magnificats but, as he was excessively humble, he did not sign his works, which makes it more difficult to identify them. Bibliography *Bernardes, J. M. R. e Bernardes, I. R. S. (2003), Uma Discografia de Cds da Composição Musical em Portugal: Do Século XIII aos Nossos Dias, INCM. pp. 197–198 . *Cruz, António e Pimentel, Carlos F. (1937), Inventário dos Inéditos e Impressos Musicais: Subsídios para um Catálogo, prefácio d

Isabel Soveral

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Isabel Soveral (born 1961) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary music. Life Isabel Soveral was born in 1961 in Porto, Portugal. She graduated from the where she studied with the composers Jorge Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos. In 1988, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel, having completed her master’s (1991) and PhD (1994) in Composition at that university. She was a Fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation and Fulbright Program. She is part of an important group of Portuguese composers who appeared in the 1980s. Career Her music has been performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and the United States. She has had several works released on CD by the publishers Portugalsom and Strauss, EMI Classics, Nova Música, Capella, Deux-Elles, Numérica, ISCM-WMD, Miso Records, Plancton, IPCB and Musicamera, as well as scores published by Musicoteca, Fermata, Cecilia Honegger, IPCB and MIC. She has been Professor of Composition, Theory and Musical

João de Sousa Carvalho

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João de Sousa Carvalho (22 February 1745c. 1798) was the foremost Portuguese composer of his generation. Born in Estremoz, he studied music from 1753 at the Colégio dos Santos Reis in Vila Viçosa, then from 1761 at the Conservatório di Sant’ Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples. In 1766 his setting of Metastasio’s operatic libretto La Nitteti was performed in Rome. The following year, he joined the Irmandade de Santa Cecília at Lisbon and was appointed professor of counterpoint in the Seminário da Patriarcal, where he later served as mestre (1769–1773) and mestre de capela (1773–1798). In 1778, he became music teacher to the royal family. He died in 1798 in Alentejo at the age of 53. His numerous church works are written in a style similar to that of Niccolò Jommelli and, sometimes, Haydn. Several of his opere serie and serenatas were performed at the royal palaces of Ajuda and Queluz. Some of his keyboard music survives and is occasionally played today. His Opera Buffa L’amore industrioso was discovered by conductor and scholar David Chernaik in the Biblioteca da Ajuda in manuscript, and performed in London and Oporto in 2000-2002. Some compositions *L’amore industrioso, 1769 (revive

João Domingos Bomtempo

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João Domingos Bomtempo (; also Buontempo; Lisbon, 28 December 1775 – Lisbon, 18 August 1842) was a Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Biography Bomtempo was the son of an Italian musician in the Portuguese court orchestra, and studied at the Music Seminary of the Patriarchal See in Lisbon. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he was not interested in opera and, in 1801, instead of going to Italy, he traveled to Paris, where he started a career as a virtuoso pianist. He moved to London in 1810 and became acquainted with liberal circles in that city. During 1822 he returned to Lisbon, and founded there a Philharmonic Society to promote public concerts of contemporary music. After the Portuguese civil war between liberals and absolutists had resulted in a liberal victory, Bomtempo became a music teacher to the young Queen Maria II of Portugal and first Director of the National Conservatory, created in 1835 to replace the old Patriarchal Seminary, which had been abolished by the new liberal regime. Bomtempo composed a vast number of concertos, sonatas, variations and fantasies for the piano. His two known symphonies are the first to be produced by a Portuguese composer

João Lourenço Rebelo

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João Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo (1610 – 16 November 1661) was the only Portuguese composer to adopt the Venetian polychoral style. Despite his closeness to King John IV of Portugal (1603–1656), and despite what is traditionally said, Rebelo never held any office in the royal household. Life Rebelo was born in Caminha in 1610, the son of João Soares Pereira and Maria Lourenço Rebelo. In 1624, he became a choir boy at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Braganza, while his older brother, Father Marcos Soares Pereira (?-1655) was admitted as chaplain-singer. In keeping with the aristocratic patterns of behavior of the 17th century, and as a sign of pre-eminence, Teodósio II, the 7th Duke of Braganza (1568-1630) had created an academy for court musicians, the Colégio dos Santos Reis Magos (College of the Three Wise Kings), where Rebelo studied under Robert Turner (c.1578-1629), an Irish musician who himself had been a student of the Flemish composer Géry de Ghersem, and mestre de capela of the ducal chapel from 1616, and possibly also under Friar Manuel Cardoso, In 1646 Rebelo was made a nobleman, Fidalgo de juro e herdade, of the Royal House

Joel Fausto

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Joel Ferreira Figueiredo (born 9 May 1988), better known by Joel Fausto, is a Portuguese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is known as the frontman of Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra, formed in 2008. Also he is associated with his side acts Cajado, Gesso, Manos, Omitir and Forgotten Winter. Fausto’s music is generally characterised by a frightening emotions through obsessions, fear, death, love, paranoia and surrealistic scenarios. Fausto has also worked as a composer for some short films, Déjà Vécu(2015) directed by André Leite e Péu Barbosa from Brazil and Berlin Hustle (2016) directed by Laurent Daniels from Germany. In 2015, one associated website of the famous TV Series Twin Peaks with the name “Welcome To Twin Peaks” compiled an Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks character) inspired playlist called “Isn’t It Too Dreamy?” including Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra with names like Aphex Twin, Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen, and others. Joel Fausto and Illusion Orchestra (2008–present) Fausto formed his ghost band calling them “Illusion Orchestra” in 2008. Before that, the band had the name of “Vácuo do Outono”. Their sound tends to change considerably from one album t

John IV of Portugal

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Dom John IV (; 19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), also known by the Portuguese as John the Restorer (), was the King of Portugal from 1640 until his death in 1656. He restored the independence of Portugal from Habsburg Spanish rule a claimant to the crown during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580. On the eve of his death in 1656, the Portuguese Empire was at its territorial zenith, spanning the globe. Early life John IV was born at Vila Viçosa and succeeded his father Teodósio II as Duke of Braganza when the latter died insane in 1630. He married Luisa de Guzmán (1613–66), the eldest daughter of Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia, in 1633. John was described as having blonde hair and an average height. Reign Accession When Philip II of Portugal (III of Spain) died, he was succeeded by his son Philip III (IV of Spain), who had a different approach to Portuguese issues. Taxes on the Portuguese merchants were raised, the Portuguese nobility began to lose its influence, and government posts in Portugal were increasingly occupied by Spaniards. Ultimately, Philip III tried to make Portugal a Spanish province, meaning Portuguese nobles stood to lose all of their

Joly Braga Santos

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José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE (; May 14, 1924 – July 18, 1988) was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies. Biography José Manuel Joly Braga Santos was born in Lisbon in 1924 and died in this city in 1988, at the peak of his musical creativity. Having studied violin and composition at the National Conservatoire of Lisbon, he became a disciple of Luís de Freitas Branco (1890–1955), the leading Portuguese composer of the preceding generation. After the Second World War, he was able to go abroad, having studied conducting with Hermann Scherchen and Antonino Votto, and composition with Virgilio Mortari. In 1945 he visited England where he met Ralph Vaughan Williams, who encouraged him to use his native folksong in his symphonic music and also suggested that he should take lessons in counterpoint. He was undoubtedly the leading Portuguese symphonist of the 20th century, and perhaps of all time. Apart from an innate sense of orchestration, his musical language is based on a strong musical architecture as well as drama, with long melodic phrases and a natural instinct for structural development. In his own words, he wanted “to cont

Jorge Peixinho

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Jorge Manuel Marques Peixinho Rosado (born 20 January 1940 — 30 June 1995) was a Portuguese composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Born in Montijo, Portugal, Peixinho studied composition and piano at the Conservatory of Lisbon from 1951 through 1958. At that institution he was a pupil of Artur Santos and Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos. He then pursued graduate studies in music composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome where he was mentored in composition by Boris Porena and Goffredo Petrassi; graduating in 1961. In 1960 he worked with Luigi Nono in Venice, and with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the City of Basel Music Academy. From 1960 through 1970 he was a participant in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, as both student and lecturer. He began teaching courses in contemporary music in 1962 at the Lisbon Conservatory, and at other institutions in Portugal and South America. In 1970, he created the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group with Clotilde Rosa, and worked at the IPEM studio in Ghent from 1972 to 1973. He died in Lisbon, Portugal on June 30, 1995. Works (selective list) *Tríptico, for voices / soli, choirs, and various instrumental ensembles

José Augusto Ferreira Veiga

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José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro (22 November 1838 in Portuguese Macau – 7 June 1903 in San Remo, Italy Veiga performed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos on 31 March 1876; his opera-ballet L’elisir di giovinezza (Jean-Jacques Magne) was not popular with the public, which led Veiga to present it the following year in Milan, Italy, at the Teatro Dal Verme. This presentation in 1877 also failed to win public favour. He then adapted the music to a new libretto by Rudolfo Paravicini that was based on an English novel by Ann Radcliffe. The new version, now a melodrama tragico named Dina la derelitta, was finally accepted by audiences upon being performed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos on 14 March 1885. Veiga wrote the opera Don Bibas, based on Alexandre Herculano’s previously unknown novel (The Jester) but it has never been performed. José Augusto Ferreira Veiga died on 7 June 1903 in San Remo, Italy, aged 64. Works * A questão do oriente (operetta, Coimbra, Teatro Académico, 1859) * Pela bocca morre o peixe (J. Guilerme dos Santos Lima/José Inácio de Araújo), (lyrical farce, 1860) * Ginn (ballet, Lisbon, 1866) * Te Deum (Lisbon, 1871) * L’elisir di giovinezza (4

José Maurício (Portuguese composer)

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José Maurício (Coimbra, 19 March 1752 - Figueira da Foz, 12 September 1815 ) was a Portuguese composer mainly known for his prolific production of sacred music. A native of Coimbra, Mauricio began as singer and organist and rose to become both chapel master at Coimbra Cathedral, and music professor at the Universidade de Coimbra during the reforms of João VI. Works *Requiem *Miserere Like many other church composers of his time he also composed secular songs, modinhas. References External links * Marcello Piras - “Musica nera e teatro” (youtube parte 1-5), italian

José Vianna da Motta

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José Vianna da Motta (modern spelling as Viana da Mota; 22 April 1868 – 1 June 1948) was a Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. The José Vianna da Motta Music Competition was founded in 1957 in his honor. Life José Vianna da Motta was born on São Tomé Island, a Portuguese territory at the time where his father, also a great amateur musician, had opened a pharmacy. Moving with his family to Continental Portugal, he settled in Colares, near Sintra, where he soon showed his unusual skills in music, and in playing and composing works for the piano. In Berlin he had lessons from Xaver Scharwenka and Philipp Scharwenka before studying with Franz Liszt at Weimar in 1885 and with Hans von Bülow two years later. In the following years he undertook many concert tours all round the world. His professional career began in 1886 and continued uninterruptedly until 1945. He made his first European tour in 1888, accompanying violinist Pablo de Sarasate in Copenhagen and Helsinki and violinist Tivadar Nachéz in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Motta made his first American tour in 1892, the year he visited New York and where he met Ferruccio Busoni, and

Luís de Freitas Branco

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Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco (12 October 1890 – 27 November 1955) was a Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music who played a pre-eminent part in the development of Portuguese music in the first half of the 20th century. Life Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco was born in Lisbon into an aristocratic family who for centuries had had close ties to the royal family in Portugal. His brother, Pedro, was a conductor. Luís had a cosmopolitan education, studied piano and violin beginning in childhood and began composing at a precocious age. He studied music in Berlin and Paris, where he worked with Engelbert Humperdinck and other composers. He returned to Portugal and became professor of composition starting in 1916 at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music, where he became a leading force in restructuring musical education. There he taught, among many others, Joly Braga Santos. During the 1930s he increasingly encountered political difficulties with the authorities and was finally forced into retirement from his official duties in 1939. He continued to compose, however, and to pursue his research into Portuguese early music, publishing several books and numerous art

Manuel Cardoso (composer)

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Manuel Cardoso (baptized 11 December 1566 – 24 November 1650) was a Portuguese composer and organist. With Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the “golden age” of Portuguese polyphony. Cardoso is not known to be related to an older contemporary composer of the same name; the precentor Manuel Cardoso, who published a book of Latin passions in Leiria in 1575. Cardoso was born in Fronteira, near Portalegre, most likely in 1566. He attended the Colégio dos Moços do Coro, a choir school associated with the Évora cathedral, studying with Manuel Mendes and Cosme Delgado. In 1588 he joined the Carmelite order, taking his vows in 1589. In the early 1620s he was resident at the ducal household of Vila Viçosa, where he was befriended by the Duke of Barcelos—later to become King John IV. For most of his career he was the resident composer and organist at the Carmelite Convento do Carmo in Lisbon. Cardoso’s works are models of Palestrinian polyphony, and are written in a refined, precise style which completely ignores the development of the Baroque idiom elsewhere in Europe. His style has much in common with Tomás Luis de Victoria, in its careful treatment of dissonance, occasio

Manuel Machado (composer)

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Manuel Machado (c. 1590–1646) was a Portuguese composer and harpist. He was mostly active in Spain, as he was born when the kingdoms of Portugal and Spain were in a dynastic union. Life Manuel Machado was born in Lisbon and studied at the Claustra college of the Lisbon Cathedral with the renowned composer Duarte Lobo. He moved to Spain and in 1610 he became a musician of the royal chapel in Madrid, where his father, Lope Machado, was already a harpist. In 1639, he became a musician in the palace of Philip IV of Spain, and in 1642, he was rewarded “for his long years of service”. Work Machado composed several sacred works, but he is better known for his secular 3- and 4-voice cantigas and romances in Mannerist style. Unfortunately, very few of his works have survived (most of them were destroyed during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake). His secular music is characterised by great skill in the flexible use of the meter and harmony to reflect the content of the poems. Machado’s highly expressive word-painting, with rich chromatism, unexpected modulation and dissonant chords (such as augmented chords or inverted seventh chords, which would have caused considerable impact in his own time), as

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

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Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (ca. 15551635) was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón. Coelho was born in Elvas around 1555 and probably received early education at the Elvas Cathedral. He may also have studied at the Badajoz Cathedral, where he worked as organist from 1573 to 1577. At some point during the 1580s, Coelho returned to Elvas and worked at the cathedral there. He left the post in 1602 after becoming court organist at Lisbon. He died in 1635, probably in Lisbon. The composer’s surviving works are preserved in a 1620 print Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa, published in Lisbon. The collection, dedicated to Philip II of Portugal, is the earliest surviving Portuguese keyboard print. It contains 24 tientos, 101 liturgical organ versets (kyries and hymn settings), four settings of the Spanish/Mozarabic version of Pange lingua, and four intabulations of Lassus’ Susanne ung jour. This large collection is probably a compilation of earlier composed material. Coelho’s most important compositions are his tientos, which are very long (200–300 bars on average), multi-sectional pieces. Imitative counterpoin

Marcos Portugal

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Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal (24 March 1762 – 17 February 1830), also known as Marco Portogallo in Italian, was a Portuguese-Brazilian classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas. Biography Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal was born in Lisbon. He studied music at the Patriarchal Seminary in Lisbon where, as a 14-year-old student, he wrote his first work, a Miserere. He later worked as composer and organist at the Patriarchal See, and was maestro at the Theatre of Salitre in Lisbon from c. 1784. He lived in Italy from late 1792 to 1800, possibly funded by the prince regent D. John, the later King John VI of Portugal. He wrote 21 operas for various Italian theatres. The first, I due gobbi (also known as Confusioni della Somiglianza), premiered in Florence in the spring of 1793. His version of The Marriage of Figaro, titled La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro (The Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro), to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, premiered in Venice in 1799. Like most theatre composers of the time, Portugal set several librettos that had proven successful for earlier operas, such as Metastasio’s Demofoonte (premièred at La Scala, M

Marcos Soares Pereira

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Marcos Soares Pereira (died 1655) was a Portuguese composer and mestre da Capela Real. He was the brother of the famous Portuguese composer João Lourenço Rebelo. Life Marcos Soares Pereira was born in Caminha most probably at the end of the 16th century, as the son of João Soares Pereira and Maria Lourenço Rebelo. Little is known about his musical studies and when or where he was ordained priest. In 1624 Pereira was admitted as chaplain-singer at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Braganza, the most important title in the peerage of Portugal in the middle of the 17th century. In 1629 Pereira replaced Robert Turner (c. 1578-1629) as mestre de capela. After the overthrow of the Philippine Dynasty on 1 December 1640, which had ruled Portugal since 1580, João, Duke of Braganza became king and the ducal chapel moved from Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. In 1641, after the retirement of Filipe de Magalhães, Marcos Soares Pereira was appointed mestre da Capela Real, a position he held until his death in 1655. Musical work None of Pereira’s musical work survived to the present day, most likely due to the Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, with the destruction of

Maria de Lourdes Martins

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Maria de Lourdes Martins (26 May 1926 – 31 August 2009) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. Life Maria de Lourdes Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Lisbon Conservatory teacher Maria Helena Martins. Martins studied at the Lisbon Conservatory with Abreu Mota, Macário Santiago Kastner and Marcos Garin where she would obtain degrees in piano in 1944, and composition in 1949. . She continued her studies in composition with and Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos. here she would learn about Orff-Schulwerk, a child centered music education approach which she would take to Portugal and introduce there. While in Munich she would meet Professor Genzmer who made her aware of the education program. Genzmer also made her aware of the Gulbenkian foundation which funded the Orff-Schulwerk program in Portugal. She would continue her education by acquiring a scholarship from the Gulbenkian foundation and would learn the Kodaly method in the country of Hungary.After completing her studies, Martins took a position teaching at the Lisbon Conservatory. She introduced the Orff-Schulwerk system from the Salzburg Mozarteum in Portugal, and won the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Composition

Paulo Galvão

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Paulo Galvão (born 1967 in Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) is a composer, lutenist, theorbist and guitarist. According to Dan Hill, Galvão has published “musical forgeries” for baroque guitar under the name “Antonio da Costa”. Galvão’s works have been performed by Marcello Vitale and Marco Meloni. Biography Paulo Galvão had his first musical studies at the Escola de Música de Grupo Coral de Lagos. He later studied classical guitar, lute, theorbo, and baroque guitar with Manuel Morais at the National Conservatory in Lisbon. He had further professional studies with Ede Roth, Hopkinson Smith, Jakob Lindberg and Carlo Marchione. Discography *O Cancioneiro de Elvas. Vitor Lima, sång, Joaquin Galvão, blockflöjt, Paulo Galvão, luta. Musicália M.01.01.004 *Duo Galvão. Recital. Vivaldi, Ortiz, Molino, Rodil, Galvão. Joaquin Galvão, flöjter, Paulo Galvão, gitarr, vihuela, luta, teorb. Musicália M.01.01.001 *O Livro de Guitarra do Conde de Redondo - Guitar Book of the Count Redondo, Label: Musicalia ASIN: B00005425I *Duo Galvão - Música Portuguesa para Flauta e Violão References *Paulo Galvao’s works for baroque guitar

Pedro António Avondano

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Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage. Pedro António was born and died in Lisbon. His father Pietro Giorgio Avondano of Genoa, was a violinist at the court of João V, one of many Italian musicians at the Portuguese court. Pedro António Avondano is mainly noted, like Domenico Scarlatti, for his harpsichord sonatas and sacred music. Works, editions and recordings * comic opera Il mondo della luna, with libretto by Carlo Goldoni * oratorio Il voto di Jefte * oratorio Adamo ed Eva * sacred works, inc. Tantum ergo * sinfonie Editions * Forty-nine Lisbon minuets by Pedro Antonio Avondano ed. Mary Farrar Hatchette, Tulane University of Louisiana, 1971 - 334 pages. Recordings * Avondano. Sonata in C major. Sousa Carvalho. Toccata in G minor, Allegro in D major. Ruggero Gerlin (harpsichord). Philips © 835769I.Y LP, 1967 * Harpsichord works. Rosana Lanzelotte. Portugaler, 2006. *Il mondo della luna, Naxos, 2020 *La Morte d’Abel, Presto Music, 2023 Some of Avondano’s works were revived at the Festival d’Ambronay in 2006. References External links * * Biography (in Portuguese)

Pedro Carneiro (musician)

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Pedro Carneiro (born June 5 1975) is a Portuguese solo classical percussionist, marimba player, composer, and conductor. Carneiro is one of the very few percussion players to have made an international career as a soloist, and has established himself as one of the world’s foremost solo percussionists, performing regularly throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Carneiro has won several international competitions and awards, while performing regularly in festivals and venues such as the BBC Proms, Rhythm Sticks Festival, Queen Elisabeth Hall and Purcell Room in London, Sonorities Festival in Belfast, Macau International Music Festival, Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Capital Theatre in Beijing, La Biennale di Venezia, Folles Journées (Lisbon), Schumannfest in Düsseldorf, Festival Classique au Vert in Paris, amongst others. Carneiro has also performed recitals in cities such as London, Paris, Los Angeles, Hanover, Seville, Lisbon, Seoul and Hong Kong. Carneiro is a frequent guest soloist with numerous orchestras: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do E

Pedro de Araújo

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Pedro de Araújo (c. 1640 – 1705; possibly 1610 – 1684), was a Portuguese organist and composer who worked with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga, northern Portugal. He was singing master at the Conciliar Seminary of St. Peter and St. Paul in Braga between 1663 and 1668, and second organist at Braga Cathedral until 1665. Like Juan Cabanilles, he was one of the last representatives of the traditional concentrated Iberian style. Organ works #Meio Registo terçado de três tiples #Fantasia de 1º Tom ou Fantasia de 2º Tom #Fantasia de 4º Tom #Fantasia de 8º Tom #Batalha de 6º Tom #Consonâncias de 1º Tom ou Obra de 1º Tom #Obra de Passo Solto de 7º Tom #Obra de 2º Tom #Obra de 6º Tom #Obra de 8º Tom #Tento de 2º Tom #Obra de 1° Tom por B Quadro ou Obra de 2° Tom por B Quadro #Obra de 1° Tom sobre a Salve Regina Discography *Castro, Ana Mafalda (1995), Música Portuguesa para Tecla: Séculos XVI e XVII, Emi-Valentim de Carvalho Música. Clássicos Portugueses 4, Jornal Público. *Doderer, Gerhard (1994), Os Órgãos da Sé Catedral de Braga, Numérica, NUM 1028. *Hora, Joaquim Simões da (1994), Lusitana Musica, Volume I, Órgãos Históricos Portugueses: Évora, Porto, Emi-Valentim de Carvalho Mús

Pedro de Cristo

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Pedro de Cristo (1545/1550 – 12 December 1618) was a Portuguese composer of Renaissance music. He is one of the most important Portuguese polyphonists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Life Pedro de Cristo was born in Coimbra, and in 1571 entered the Augustinian monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra. While there, he studied under Francisco de Santa Maria, who was the current chapel master (mestre de capela). Pedro de Cristo succeeded Francisco de Santa Maria as chapel master before serving in the same role at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon. Cristo was ordered to return to Santa Cruz in 1605. In 1615, he was allowed to return to São Vicente. He died as the result of a fall in Coimbra in 1618. Music and Influence While at the Santa Cruz monastery, Pedro de Cristo likely studied under the chapel master Francisco de Santa Maria. This influence can be seen in Cristo’s early music through his limited vocal range, syllabic text settings, and the combined use of cambiata and passing tones of figuration. but also for his versatile background in various instruments. Cristo could play several instruments, including the keyboard, harp, flute, and dulcian. A contemporary manuscript,

Pedro de Escobar

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Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465 – after 1535), a.k.a. Pedro do Porto, was a Portuguese composer of the Renaissance, mostly active in Spain. He was one of the earliest and most skilled composers of polyphony in the Iberian Peninsula, whose music has survived. Life He was born at Porto, Kingdom of Portugal, but nothing is known of his life until he entered the service of Isabella I of Castile in 1489. His surname is of Castilian origin, and maybe he was born to Castilian immigrants, or descendants, established in Porto. But Castilians regarded him as Portuguese. He was a singer in the Catholic Queen’s chapel for ten years, and clearly was working as a composer as well; in addition he was the only member of her chapel described in court records as Portuguese. In 1499 he returned to his native Portugal, but in 1507 received an offer of employment, which he accepted, as the maestro de capilla (chapel master in the Castilian language) at the cathedral in Seville. While there he had charge of the choirboys, having to take care of their room and board in addition to having to teach them to sing; he complained of low pay, and eventually resigned. In 1521 he was working in Portugal, as mestre de c

Pedro Luís Neves

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Pedro Luís Neves is a Portuguese modern composer of classical music and author of several other genres. Pedro Luís Neves works as a composer and musician within many different musical fields, some of which include theatre plays and works with fusion between contemporary classical music and other genres (so called “crossover music”), such as jazz, Rock, electronica, and more. He also has extensive experience from working as producer, and occasionally recording engineer, in many recording sessions. Biography Born in Lisbon, 18 May 1955, Pedro Luís Neves started his musical studies in 1965 at the Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Later at the Academia dos Amadores de Música, and studied piano, harmony and composition with Maestro João de Mello Júnior. He studied biology at the University of Lisbon and formed a jazz quartet at the Hot Club of Portugal, entered the universe of improvisation and composition techniques, simultaneously collaborating in the creation of two experimental theatre shows with Lisbon’s Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa and Teatro Oficina from Brazil, in Brecht’s play Galileo. He dived into Brazilian popular music with Fernando Girão, and also into the complex struct

Rodrigo Leão

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Rodrigo Costa Leão Muñoz Miguez (born 15 October 1964), known professionally as Rodrigo Leão, is a Portuguese musician and songwriter. He became known in the 1980s as a member of the Portuguese groups Sétima Legião and Madredeus. In the 1990s, Leão launched his career as a solo artist, with multiple albums reaching number-one in the Portuguese album charts. Music career In 1982, Leão was one of the founding members of Sétima Legião, one of the most successful bands in Portugal’s 1980s rock scene. In 1985, he started Madredeus with Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Sétima Legião’s Gabriel Gomes as a sideline acoustic project. Madredeus received national and international acclaim and became one of Portugal’s most successful music groups internationally. In 1993, Rodrigo released a mostly instrumental solo album in a neo-classical, minimalist mode, titled Ave Mundi Luminar. In 1994, with Sétima Legião on a long break, he left Madredeus to dedicate himself to his solo career. He has experimented with modern classical music and contemporary pop, joining electronics with string and horn sections. With the project Os Poetas, he composed music for poems from some of Portugal’s greatest poets. Over

Rui Massena

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Rui Manuel Massena da Silva Pereira (born 26 December 1972) is a Portuguese conductor, composer and pianist. He has also worked on television. Life and career Rui Massena was born on 26 December 1972 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Portugal. His maternal grandfather played the Coimbra guitar, his mother sang and his father played the piano. In his musical education Rui Massena learned to play the piano and the violin, studied at the Vilar de Paraíso Academy and graduated in Orchestra Conducting in the class of conductor Jean-Marc Burfin at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra in Lisbon. After completing his degree, he perfected his training in Italy with Gianluigi Gelmetti and in France with Cristhian Manem. He also studied with Robert Delecroix, Pascal Rophé and Jean Sébestian Béreau. He studied piano with Hugo Berto Coelho, Teresa Monteiro, Maria José Morais and violin with Bogumila Burfin. Since 2000, Rui Massena, the artistic name by which he is known, has been artistic director and titular maestro of the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, in Funchal; and since 2005 he has been the pedagogic director of the Conservatório Escola Profissional das Artes da Madeira (CEPAM)

Tee Lopes

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Tiago Lopes, ( ) known professionally as Tee Lopes, is a Portuguese American video game composer. He is best known for his contributions in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, starting with Sonic Mania (2017). Early life Lopes was born in Coimbra, Portugal. In 2009, he uploaded his first Sonic the Hedgehog remix to YouTube, which led to his career as a video game composer. He would continue to upload remixes, original tracks, and other personal works to this day. Career Lopes first started his work as a hobbyist musician working for indie games and fan games. After being well-known for Sonic the Hedgehog remixes on YouTube, he went on to compose an HD fan port of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. After its completion, several of its developers including Tee Lopes created PagodaWest Games, an indie game developer. In 2017, him along with the developers of PagodaWest Games partnered with Sega to develop Sonic Mania, a game that notably featured other well known Sonic fan creators such as Christian Whitehead and Headcannon. He was awarded IGN’s People’s Choice Vote for Best Original Music for Sonic Mania. After Mania, Lopes became a freelance composer and has continued to compose for video games such

Teodósio, Prince of Brazil

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Dom Teodósio, Prince of Brazil, Duke of Braganza (Teodósio de Bragança; ; 8 February 1634 – 15 May 1653) was the eldest son of John IV of Portugal and heir apparent to the Portuguese throne from 1640 until his death. In 1645, he was created Prince of Brazil and 9th Duke of Braganza. Biography Born on 8 February 1634 in Vila Viçosa, Teodósio was the first child of John IV of Portugal and Luisa de Guzmán, then the Duke and Duchess of Braganza. Shortly after birth, he was granted the title Duke of Barcelos. In December 1640, John was proclaimed King John IV of Portugal by the Portuguese nobility, marking the end of the 60-year-old Iberian Union and establishing the House of Braganza on the Portuguese throne. A month later, on 28 January 1641, Teodósio was sworn in as heir apparent by the Portuguese Cortes. Seeking to grant a more prestigious title that would reflect the grandeur of the new dynasty, John IV created the title Prince of Brazil and bestowed it, alongside the title of Duke of Braganza, upon Teodósio in a royal decree issued 27 October 1645. In 1646, John IV attempted to secure a dynastic alliance with France by proposing Teodósio marry Louis XIII’s niece, La Grande Mademoi

Tito Schipa Jr.

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Tito Luigi Giovanni Michelangelo Schipa (born 18 April 1946), better known as Tito Schipa Jr., is a Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor. Career Born in Lisbon, Schipa is the son of the Italian tenor Tito Schipa. He studied singing and piano and made his professional debut in 1967 with a musical based on songs by Bob Dylan, Then an Alley. In 1970 he composed and directed Orfeo 9, which is considered the first Italian rock opera. It was adapted into a film directed by the same Schipa in 1973, while a double album based on the opera was released in 1972. In 1975 he founded the Teatro in Trastevere. In 1980 he released Er Dompasquale, the first triple album ever produced in Italy, which was a rock adaptation of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale. In 1988 Schipa released Dylaniato, an album of Bob Dylan’s cover songs adapted in Italian and Romanesco dialect. Between 1989 and 1990 he published for the editor Arcana the translations of Jim Morrison’s poetries and of Bob Dylan’s complete works. Schipa’s varied career include credits as actor, radio and television writer and stage director. Discography ;Albums * 1972 – Orfeo 9 (Fonit Cetra, LP

Vicente Lusitano

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Vicente Lusitano (c. 1520) was a Portuguese composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance. Some of his works on musical theory and a small number of compositions survive. Lusitano was for a time a Catholic priest and taught in several Italian cities, but later converted to Protestantism. He is believed to have been of mixed race. Since the 1980s, he has been described as the first published black composer. Life and career Lusitano, a Portuguese-language term for “Portuguese”, appears to be a descriptive nickname rather than a family name. Little is known of his life. He was born in Olivença, likely around 1520. Lusitano is described as pardo, a Portuguese term indicating he was of mixed European and non-European heritage. By 1561 he had married, converted to Calvinist Protestantism, and traveled to Germany. There is no record of him after 1561. and published as Un tratado de canto de órgano (siglo XVI) in 1913. * Introdvttione facilissima, et novissima, di Canto Fermo, Figvrato, Contrapon to semplice, et in concerto. Con Regole Generali per far fvghe differenti sopra il Canto Fermo, a ii, iii & iiii. voci, & compositioni, proportioni, generi. S. Diatonico, Cromotico, Enarmoni