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Mestre Da Capela Real
Mestre da Capela Real (''Master of the Royal Chapel'') was the Portuguese term used to designate the person who was in charge of all musical details related with the churches and chapels of the Kings of Portugal. On 27 of March 1623 Filipe de Magalhães was appointed ''Mestre da Capela Real'', a position he held until his retirement in 1641. Marcos Soares Pereira 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 1 ... was then appointed to the position, which he held until his death in 1655.José Augusto Alegria, ''História da Capela e Colégio dos Santos Reis Magos'', Fundação Calouste Gulbenian, 1983, p.163 References {{Reflist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau. Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as Lusophone (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Gallaecian language, Celtic phonology. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 17 million second language speakers, Portuguese has approximately 267 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the List of languages by number of native speaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Portuguese Monarchs
This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portugal, Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution. Through the nearly 800 years in which Portugal was a monarchy, the kings held various other Style of the Portuguese sovereign, titles and pretensions. Two kings of Portugal, Ferdinand I of Portugal, Ferdinand I and Afonso V of Portugal, Afonso V, claimed the crown of Castile and waged wars in order to enforce their respective claims. Ferdinand I managed to be recognized as Kingdom of Galicia, King of Galiza in 1369, although his dominance of the region was short-lived. When the House of Habsburg came into power, the kings of Spain, kings of Naples, Naples, and kings of Sicily, Sicily also became kings of Portugal. The House of Braganza brought numerous titles to the Portuguese Crown some honorary, such as the attribution of the title of ''Rex F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Filipe De Magalhães
Filipe de Magalhães (c. 1571–1652) was a Portuguese composer of sacred polyphony. Life Filipe de Magalhães was born in Azeitão, Portugal, around 1571. He studied music at the Cathedral of Évora in southern Portugal with Manuel Mendes; there he was a colleague of the equally renowned polyphonists Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso. He was apparently considered by his master Manuel Mendes as his favourite student; the latter left his own manuscripts to Magalhães, in the hope that these would be eventually published. In 1589 Magalhães replaced Manuel Mendes as ''mestre do Claustro da Sé''. Later, he went to Lisbon to become a member of the ''Capela Real'' (Royal Chapel's) choir and then ''mestre de Capela da Misericórdia''. On the 27th of March 1623 he was appointed '' Mestre da Capela Real'', a position he held until 1641. While at Évora, he was the teacher of Estêvão Lopes Morago, Estêvão de Brito and Manuel Correia, who carried on with the music school of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marcos Soares Pereira
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 House of Braganza, 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 Kapellmeister, ''mestre de capela''. After the Portuguese Restoration War, overthrow of the Philippine Dynasty on 1 December 1640, which had ruled Portugal since Portuguese succession crisis of 1580, 1580, John IV of Portugal, João, Duke of Braganza became king and the ducal chapel moved from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
