List of Portuguese composers

This is a chronological list of notable classical Portuguese composers.

Middle Ages

  • King Dinis I, King of Portugal, composer and troubadour. He composed more than 200 cantigas.
  • José Mendes Figueira (brother of Carlos Mendes Figueira) (1224–1269), composer and troubadour
  • Carlos Mendes Figueira (brother of José Mendes Figueira) (1228–1286), composer and flutist
  • João Gonçalves Miguel de Silves (1346–1389), duke of Silves and Loulé, composer and troubadour

Renaissance

Baroque

  • Manuel Correia (1600–1653), composer and kapellmeister at the La Seo Cathedral
  • King John IV (1603–1656), King of Portugal and early musicologist, with an essay on Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • D. Pedro da Esperanca (+24.6.1660) “insignis pulsator organorum”, cannon regular of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Coimbra
  • João Lourenço Rebelo(1610–1665), composer close to John IV
  • Filipe da Madre de Deus (1633–1688), composer and kapellmeister of the royal music chamber
  • King Peter II (1648–1706), King of Portugal and composer (only ten organ pieces)
  • João Rodrigues Esteves, (1700–1751) composer of religious music
  • Carlos Seixas (1704–1742), composer and organist
  • António Teixeira (1707 – after 1769), composer and chief of the choir of Lisbon Cathedral
  • Francisco António de Almeida (before 1722 – c.1755), composer and organist
  • Abbot António da Costa (1714–1780), composer, violinist, clerig and epistlegraph
  • Luciano Xavier dos Santos (1734–1808), composer and head of the Setúbal Choir.
  • João de Sousa Carvalho (1745–1798), composer and harpsichordist
  • José Joaquim dos Santos (? 1747–1801), graduate of Royal Patriarchal Music Seminary, teacher, composer, singer, organist and conductor (famous for his religious music: Stabat Mater for three voices, 2 sopranos, bass, with 2 violins and violoncello and the 5 Misereres).

Classical period

  • Pedro António Avondano (1714–1782), composer and organist (the first Portuguese composer of the Classical period)
  • João Pedro de Almeida Mota (1744–1817), Portuguese composer, worked in Spain for many years, where he died. His works are scattered by these two countries.
  • João José Baldi (1770–1816), composer (famous for his operas) and pianist
  • João Domingos Bomtempo (1775–1842), pianist, composer and pedagogue
  • Marcos Portugal (1762–1830), composer (famous for his operas) and maestro at Teatro S. Carlos in Lisbon
  • Peter IV of Portugal (1798–1836), King of Portugal and Emperor of Brazil who was also a composer (pupil of Marcos Portugal and Nunes Garcia, as well as Sigismund Von Neucomm, a pupil of Haydn).

Romanticism – early 20th century

Contemporary


References

  • VASCONCELOS, André. Música em Portugal, Porto Editora.
  • Dicionário de História de Portugal, editado por Joel Serrão
  • Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa-Brasileira ed. de 1945

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