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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).
This category page lists citizens of the United States of either full or partial Portuguese ethnic or national origin or descent who have been musicians. Pages in category "American musicians of Portuguese descent"
This is a list of Portuguese musicians in alphabetical order. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
King Dinis I of Portugal, from the Semblanzas de reyes.. In Portugal, an aristocratic poetical-musical genre was cultivated, at least since the independence (1139), whose texts are kept in three main collections (Cancioneiros): Cancioneiro da Ajuda (13th century), Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional (16th, on originals from the 14th), Cancioneiro da Vaticana (16th, on originals from the 14th).
Nicolau Chanterene (1485-1555), French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain; Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005), comic book artist; Evelina Coelho (1945–2013), painter; José Dias Coelho (1923-1961) Jorge Colaço (1868-1942) João Cutileiro (1937-2021), sculptor especially of women's torsos in marble
He was severely critical of the operatic style prevalent in sacred music at the time, and of the 45 works he composed in Brazil, only one was performed in the Royal Chapel: the Missa Pro Acclamationis Joannis VI, which he had composed for the acclamation of the prince regent king John VI of Portugal, in 1817. He held Nunes Garcia in high esteem ...
The following is a list of modernist composers.. In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and ...
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (1936–2021), chief strategist of the Carnation Revolution of Portugal; Aníbal Augusto Milhais (1895–1970), most decorated soldier Ordem de Torre e Espada do Valor, Lealdade e Mérito of Portugal; Salgueiro Maia (1944–1992), Captain who led a cavalry unit into Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution of Portugal