1745-1753 PT, Estremoz
Composer of Classical
João de Sousa Carvalho (22 February 1745 – c. 1798) was the foremost Portuguese composer of his generation.Born in Estremoz, he studied music from 1753 at the Colégio dos Santos Reis in Vila Viçosa, then from 1761 at the Conservatorio di S Onofrio in Naples. In 1766 his setting of Metastasio’s operatic libretto La Nitteti was performed in Rome. The following year, he joined the Irmandade de S Cecília at Lisbon and was appointed professor of counterpoint in the Seminário da Patriarcal, where he later served as mestre (1769–1773) and mestre de capela (1773–1798). In 1778 he became music teacher to the royal family. He died in Alentejo.
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Spanish And Portuguese Orchestral Music | Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga • Carlos Seixas • João de Sousa Carvalho • António Leal Moreira • Marcos Portugal / Algarve Orchestra • Álvaro Cassuto | 2003 | Album |
Vesperas De Nossa Senhora | João de Sousa Carvalho, Olivier Schneebelli, Les Pages Et Les Chantres Du Centre De Musique Baroque De Versailles | 1996 | Album |
Sonatas Para Cravo Em Sol Menor, Ré Maior E Fá Maior | João de Sousa Carvalho, János Rolla, János Sebestyén, Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra | 1986 | Album |
Cembalo = Harpsichord | Zuzana Růžičková, Padre Antonio Soler, João de Sousa Carvalho, Antonio de Cabezón, Carlos Seixas | 1985 | Album |
Te Deum | João de Sousa Carvalho | 1972 | Album |
Musique Portugaise Pour Orgue | Geraint Jones - António Carreira, Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, Carlos Seixas, João de Sousa Carvalho, Gaspar Dos Reis, Frei Jacinto | 1967 | Album |
Potugaliae Musica - Orchesterwerke Portugiesischer Meister | António Leal Moreira, Antonio Claudio da Silva Pereira, Marcos Portugal, João de Sousa Carvalho | Album | |
Portuguese Harpsichord Music 16th & 18th Centuries | João de Sousa Carvalho, Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, Carlos Seixas, Frei Jacinto, János Sebestyén | Album | |
Iberische Klaviermusik Aus Drei Jahrhunderten | Wolf Winfried, Carlos Seixas, João de Sousa Carvalho, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Manuel De Falla | Album |