Marcos Antonio Portugal (Protogallo)

Aside from getting the finale of his cantata La speranza used mainly because the country wide anthem of Portugal from about 1808 until 1834, Marcos Antonio Portugal enjoyed having a lot of his music broadly accepted in his homeland, aswell as with Brazil and Italy. Pursuing early research in composition, tone of voice, and organ in the Seminario da Patriarcal of Lisbon with Joao de Sousa Carvalho, he noticed his profession develop in short order. For instance, in 1783 he approved his 1st professional post, as organist and vocalist in the music guild Irmandade de San Cecilia; after that, only 2 yrs later on, he was produced maestro from the Teatro perform Salitre in Lisbon, his first theatrical visit. He made up farsas, entremezes, and elogios there until he visited Naples to complete his studies. Surviving in Italy between 1792 – 1800, his popularity was probably founded using the well-liked La confusione della somiglianza, a comic opera. Despite the fact that this form of dramatic function was trendy, Portugal also had written many significant operas, that have been performed in a few countries, including Britain and Italy. While occupied with the theatre, he composed much less chapel music, but ultimately came back to it after he remaining the country. Back Lisbon, politics turmoil was sensed throughout the property, but it acquired minimal initial results on Portugal, who was simply deeply involved in are the recently appointed maestro from the Teatro de San Carlos so that as the mestre de capela from the royal chapel. Like many Portuguese, like the royal courtroom, Portugal did keep his homeland for Brazil in the first 1800s. It had been not really until 1811, after Napoleon and his soldiers occupied the property, which the composer and his sibling ,Simao, produced the voyage jointly. In his brand-new home, he constructed, resurrected some of his previous works, was once again made maestre from the royal chapel, and was afterwards made maestro from the Teatro San Joao. Despite having greater political protection, re-established courtroom contacts, and hopeful horizons, not absolutely all was well for him. Portugal battled mental disease over the last couple of years of his existence and eventually passed on at age 67, departing a legacy of compositions behind, including Lo spazzacamino principe (1794), La donna di genio volubile (1796), L’oro non compra amore, Le donne cambiate (1797), Fernando nel Messico (1798), and A Castanheira (1788). His opera La morte di Semiramide (1801) was documented for the Opera Rara label in 1982 as well as for Koch Schwann in 1993.