João de Sousa Carvalho
Born: 22nd February 1742, Estremoz, Portugal
Died: 1798, Alentejo, Evora, Portugal
Nationality: Portuguese
João de Sousa Carvalho 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 Conservatório di Sant' Onofrio a Porta Capuana 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 Santa 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).
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