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João Lourenço Rebelo
12+ albums
Classicalportuguesebaroquerenaissanceearly baroque
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João Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo (1610 – 16 November 1665) was the only Portuguese composer to adopt the Venetian polychoral style [1]. Despite is closeness to the king John IV of Portugal (1603–1656)and unlike what is traditionally said, Rebelo has not held any office in the royal household. Rebelo was born in Caminha in 1610, son of João Soares Pereira and Maria Lourenço Rebelo [2]. In 1624, became a choir boy at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, while his older brother, Father Marcos Soares Pereira (?-1655) was admitted as chaplain-singer [3]. Fitting the aristocratic patterns of behavior of the 17th century, and as a sign of pre-eminence [4], Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza had created the Colégio dos Santos Reis Magos (College of the Three Wise Kings), an academy for court musicians, where Rebelo study under Robert Turner (c.1578-1629), an irish musician who himself had been a student of the Flemish composer Géry de Ghersem, and mestre de capela of the duke chapel since 1616 [5], and possibly under Friar Manuel Cardoso [6]. Unlike what is traditionally said, Rebelo didn’t became music teacher of the duke’s heir João, Duke of Barcelos (who was six years older than him), they simply struck up a friendship that was to endure the rest of his life. After the rebellion against Spain on 1 December 1640, wich had occupied Portugal since 1580, João became king of Portugal and the ducal chapel moved from Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. Both brothers moved to the capital in the Kin
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Lauda Jerusalem à 16
1062Panis angelicus
573Lamentations (transcribed by J.A. Alegria)
214Super Aspidem
215Panis Angelicus - Hymn
166Lauda Jerusalem
1171. Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola - 2. Beth. Plorans ploravit - 3. Ghimel. Migravit Judas - 4. Daleth. Viae Sion - 5. Jerusalem convertere
118Vesper Psalms: 1. Dixit Dominus - Vocal
119Educes Me
1010Vesper Psalms: 4. Credidi propter - Vocal
10albums
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40 voix (40 voices)
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Rebelo: Vesper Psalms and Lamentations
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Portuguese Vocal Masterpieces of the 16th & 17th Centuries, Vol. 1
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A Golden Age of Portuguese Music
Paul Van Nevel - Rebelo: Vesper Psalms and Lamentations
Vesper Psalms and Lamentations
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40 Voix
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Choral Music from the Portugese Renaissance
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Masterpieces of Portuguese Polyphony
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The Golden Age ( Vol.1)
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A Secret Labyrinth - João Lourenço Rebelo: Vesper Psalms and Lamentations
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A Golden Age of Portuguese Music (The Sixteen feat. conductor: Harry Christophers)