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Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal
1762 - 1830
Portugal
| M.A. Portugal |
Marcos Portugal (24/03/1762 - 07/02/1830), a Portuguese conductor and composer, born in Lisbon.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians |
Officium and Missa pro defunctis
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1816 |
| Musical form: | officium&mass |
| Text/libretto: | daily prayers, psalms, hymns, lectures, etc. + Latin mass |
| In memory of: | queen Dona Maria I of Portugal |
In March 20th 1816 died coincidently the Portuguese queen, Dona Maria the first, and Vitória Maria, José Mauricio Nunes Garcia's mother. The queen's death, in the Convent of Carmo, turned the city into mourn. The funeral carriage passed through many streets to the burial in the Convent of Ajuda. The people followed the carriage in silence. Her funeral was celebrated solemnly in the Royal Chapel, with a Requiem mass and an Officium for the dead composed and conducted by Marcos Portugal.
Maria I (1734-1816), the first Queen regnant of Portugal, was a daughter of Joseph I of Portugal (1714-1777) and Mariana of Spain (1718-1781).
| Dona Maria I, queen of Portugal (dedicatee) |