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Francisco de Sá Noronha (1820–1881), composer and violinist. José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, (1838–1903) composer and ballet choreographer. Alfredo Keil (1850–1907), composer of operas and author of the music of the Portuguese national anthem. José Vianna da Motta (1868–1948), pianist, teacher and composer.
Founded in the 12th century by D. Afonso Henriques, it was the first school of superior studies in Portugal (St. Anthony of Padua – or of Lisbon – studied there). In the 16th century, several monks distinguished by their musical gifts, as D. Heliodoro de Paiva and D. Francisco de Santa Maria.
José António Carlos de Seixas (Portuguese: [ˈkaɾluʃ ˈsɐjʃɐʃ]; 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 ...
Tiento (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtjento], Portuguese: Tento [ˈtẽtu]) is a musical genre originating in Spain in the mid-15th century. It is formally analogous to the fantasia (fantasy), found in England, Germany, and the Low Countries, and also the ricercare, first found in Italy. By the end of the 16th century the tiento was exclusively a ...
Pipe organ in Mafra.. The six organs in the Basilica of the Palace of Mafra - designed and built all at the same time, and designed to play together as well - were built by the two most important Portuguese organ builders of the time – António Xavier Machado e Cerveira and Joaquim António Peres Fontanes – and were completed between 1806 and 1807.
Lochamer-Liederbuch and Fundamentum Organisandi of Conrad Paumann (mid-15th century) Buxheimer Orgelbuch (1460/1470) Codex of Nikolaus Apel (c. 1500) Tabulaturen etlicher Lobgesang of Arnolt Schlick (1512) First known printed organ music. Amerbach (Bonifacius) Tablatures of Hans Kotter (1513 and c. 1522) (includes music of Paul Hofhaimer)
Galician gaita. The Galician gaita (Galician: Gaita galega, Portuguese: Gaita galega, Spanish: Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal. The word gaita is used across northern Spain as a generic term for "bagpipe", although in the south of Spain and Portugal it denotes a variety of horn, flute or oboe like ...
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 ...