António Teixeira (1707-1774) - Sinfonia

Feliz aniversário António Teixeira! 📯🎻

Composer: António Teixeira (1707-1774)
Work: Sinfonia
Performers: Divino Sοspiro

Drawing: John Couse (fl. 1753-1764) - The City of Lisbon as before the dreadful Earthquake of November 1st 1755
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Map: Frederik de Wit (c.1630-1706) - Novissima regnorum Portugalliae et Algarbiae descriptio
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António Teixeira [Teyxeira]
(Lisbon, 14 May 1707 - Lisbon, 20 November 1774)

Portuguese composer and singer. Following study on a royal stipend in Rome from 1714 to 1728, he returned to Lisbon as a chaplain and singer for the Lisbon cathedral. He wrote a few festive cantatas for members of the aristocracy, including 'Gli sposi fortunati', performed at the house of Antónia Joaquina de Menezes de Lavra during Carnival 1732, and a 'Componimento drammatico' to celebrate the wedding of the Marquis of Cascais during Carnival 1738. By 1760 he produced operas at the Teatro do Bairro Alto Lima, becoming known for his lyrical style of Italian opera, as well as being the first to write operas in Portuguese. The first of these, 'Guerras do alecim e manjerona', was a major factor in establishing opera in the native language. In 1765 he was elected to the Irmandade de St. Cecilia. His compositions include seven operas, two Masses, two motets, a large cantata, and numerous other sacred works. While many of his sacred works reflect later 18th-century church style, his most famous work, a 20-voice Te Deum composed in 1734, is largely Baroque with polychoral writing.