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La resurrezione (The Resurrection), HWV 47, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652–1728). Capece was court poet to Queen Marie Casimire of Poland , who was living in exile in Rome .
Carlo Sigismondo Capece (21 June 1652 in Rome – 12 March 1728 in Polistena) was an Italian dramatist and librettist. Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland , who was living in exile in Rome , and is best remembered today for the libretto of La resurrezione (HWV 47, 1708) a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel . [ 1 ]
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).
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; João Lourenço Rebelo(1610–1665), composer close to John IV; Filipe da Madre de Deus (1633–1688), composer and kapellmeister of the royal ...
Portugal has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea, across Europe and former colonies. In the two centuries before the Christian era, Ancient Rome brought with it Greek influences; early Christians, who had their differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who ...
In 2007, the first international conference 'Incontros Internationais de Guitarra Portuguesa' at Coimbra was started on his initiative. [ 3 ] His book, “The Portuguese Guitar”, Ediclube, Lisbon 1999, is the first monography on this national instrument’s origins and historical' evolution, iconography, organological study and repertoire.
The Museum of Portuguese Music (Portuguese: Museu da Música Portuguesa) is a small museum housed in the Casa Verdades de Faria in Estoril, municipality of Cascais, Portugal, on the Portuguese Riviera. It contains a collection of Portuguese musical instruments and other items, as well as a music documentation centre, and is also used for recitals.
Música Portuguesa Contemporânea – Obras para clarinete "Contemporary Portuguese Music - Clarinet Works" (includes - O novo canto da Sibila). António Saiote, clarinet. CD Strauss-PortugalSom, 1995. Jorge Peixinho: Concerto para saxofone alto e orquestra "Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra",