Grupo coral carlos seixas biography

Seixas was born in Coimbra.

In he founded the Grupo Coral Polifónico de Macau (The Macao Choral Polyphonic Ensemble) which, during three decades, delighted the Macanese with a high.

He succeeded his father as organist in at age fourteen, and two years later moved to Lisbon, where he gave harpsichord lessons and met Domenico Scarlatti who was living in Portugal from to Seixas later became organist in the court chapel and Lisbon cathedral as well as court composer. He was knighted in by John V of Portugal and died in Lisbon in Seixas was influenced by the German Empfindsamer Stil.

Much of his work was destroyed in the earthquake that devastated Lisbon in Only three orchestral pieces and around keyboard sonatas survived, plus a handful of choral works for liturgical use. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.

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