- Filipe de Magalhães
Filipe de Magalhães (
Azeitão , c.1571 -Lisbon , 1652) was a Portuguesecomposer ofsacred polyphony .Life
Filipe de Magalhães was born in
Azeitão ,Portugal in 1571. He studied music at the Cathedral ofÉvora withManuel Mendes and he was a colleague of the renowned polyphonistsDuarte Lobo andManuel Cardoso . In 1589 he replaced Manuel Mendes as "mestre da Claustra da Sé". He then went to Lisbon where he was member of the "Capela Real" choir and then "mestre de Capela da Misericórdia". On the 27th of March 1623 he was appointed "mestre da Capela Real" ("master of the Royal Chapel"), where he stays until 1641.While at Évora, he was the teacher of
Estêvão Lopes Morago ,Estêvão de Brito andManuel Correia , who maintained the music school of the Cathedral of Évora in the 16th and 17th centuries.Work
Magalhães dedicated himself to the composition of sacred polyphonic works for the
liturgy . Most of them were published in collections such as the "Missarum Liber", which was dedicated toPhilip III of Spain (Philip II of Portugal), and the "Cantica Beatissima Virgines", published in Lisbon in 1639. He also wrote a book ofplainsong , "Cantus Ecclesiasticus", which was published in five different editions (the first ones in Lisbon in 1614 and inAntwerp in 1642, and the last one in 1724).The catalog of the Music Library of king
John IV of Portugal also mentions one 8-voice Mass, 6-voice Lamentations for theMaundy Thursday , one 7-voiceChristmas villancico and five 5- and 6-voicemotet s. All these works were lost during the1755 Lisbon earthquake .ources
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