Afonso Vaz da Costa

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Afonso Vaz da Costa, (Lisbon, ? - Ávila, April 5, 1660) was a Portuguese composer and master of a chapel active in Badajoz and Ávila. It seems that Vaz de Acosta was educated in Rome, according to Barbosa Machado in his Lusitanian Library The first news of the master is from 1626, when he was appointed master of the chapel of the Cathedral of Badajoz after winning the opposition: The choice fell in another Portuguese. On May 12, 1626, Alfonso Vaz de Acosta, a native of Lisbon, was appointed chapel master. Finally, some stability entered the Badajoz teaching after having been subject to many changes in recent years. Kastner, S. (1960). "Music in the Cathedral of Badajoz (years 1601-1700)". Musical Yearbook XV: 67. In Badajoz, his annual salary was 47,150 maravedís and two wheat cahices. The activity of the master boosted the musical life of the metropolitan of Badajoz, which demonstrates the large number of compositions he left in the archive. On June 24, 1636, he received 400 reais for his replacement from organist Juan de Alvelos, who had left eight months earlier. On August 2, 1641, the teacher was given a one-month license to take the oppositions to the teaching profession of Ávila. He won the oppositions, in which he faced Andrés Barrea, and was appointed master of the chapel of the Cathedral of Ávila that same 1641. He was granted an aid of 10,200 maravedís for the transfer of his house from Badajoz. In Ávila his teaching took place normally, directing in 1642 a c

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