Fernando de Almeida

Fernando de Almeida

Genres: baroque, portuguese, 17th century

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About Fernando de Almeida

Fernando de Almeida (Lisbon, 1603/04 — Tomar, 26 April 1660) was a Portuguese Baroque composer. Fernando de Almeida was born in Lisbon in 1603 or 1604. He was the son of António Jorge, a Brigantine tailor, and Maria Lopes, a Lisboner . Both were Old Christians . He was baptized at the Church of Santa Justa in the same city. He studied Latin and music. As a master he had the famous composer Duarte Lobo when he taught at the Cathedral of Lisbon . He became a religious of the Order of Christ between 1618/19 and was initially based in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Luz , in the current parish of Carnide , but years later he moved to the Convent of Christ.of Tomar . He managed to rise in the order, where he held, among other positions, that of visitor. In 1649 he was ordered by D. João IV to return to his homeland, returning to Carnide . The king's predilection for his music was known, [ 2 ] a fact that did not, however, prevent it from having a sad end. On March 12 , 1659 , he was arrested, accused of injuring the Prior of the Convent of Christ. He was subjected to an interrogation where he provided some data about his biography that have come to the present in a process preserved in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo . The Court of the Inquisition found him guilty and he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment , fastingbread and water, loss of status and payment of court fees. He also had to take part in the procession of the auto da fé on October 26 of the same year as a repentant (carrying a lit candle in his hand). He barely served the sentence to which he was condemned since, imprisoned and inhumanely treated, he died shortly afterwards, on April 26 , 1660 in the Convent of Christ in Tomar. He was buried in a mass grave without any funeral rite. Some of his works were preserved in the Royal Music Library and were lost with the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 . Handwritten codices copied between 1735 and 1736 in the Paço Ducal Library in Vila Viçosa survive.

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