André da Silva Gomes (1752-1844)
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Performers: Solistas, coro e orquestra sinfônica do Teatro Nacional de Brasília; Cláudio Santοrο (1919-1989, conductor)
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Portuguese composer. Little is known about his early years. It is
believed that he may have received lessons from or at least been
influenced by David Pérez, a Neapolitan composer of Spanish descent,
Master of the Royal Palatine Chapel of Palermo, who lived in Portugal
for several years as Master of the Imperial Chapel of Lisbon. Pérez
developed significant pedagogical activities in Portugal. An influential
composer of opera seria, David Pérez directed all the musical life of
José I court until the end of his life, influencing all Portuguese
composers of his time. It is unknown whether André da Silva Gomes had
already moved to Brazil or if he came specifically to take up the
position of Master of Chapel at the cathedral of the city of São Paulo
in 1774 under the bishop Frei Manuel da Ressurreição. Among his duties,
he was in charge of reorganizing the choir and repertoire of the
cathedral to avoid the hybridization of sacred music and operatic music,
a practice that the governor of the captaincy of São Paulo, Luís
Antônio Botelho de Sousa Mourão, had banned. In addition to the tendency
to purify the profane sounds of sacred music (mainly coming from opera
or theatrical music), encouraged by the governor of the Captaincy of São
Paulo, but probably resulting from the Encyclical Annus qui hunc (1749)
of Pope Benedict XIV, André da Silva Gomes found himself, in São Paulo,
in an urban environment and a cathedral lacking resources, initially
counting, in this church, almost exclusively on the organist Inácio
Xavier de Carvalho. Was then he founded a free music school and gathered
an orchestra. In 1775 he married to Maria Garcia de Jesus with whom he
had no children, but the couple adopted 16 children and provide them,
besides the surname, formal and musical education. In 1789, he joined
the military career where he conducted the musical corporation. In 1797
he was appointed as a teacher in Latin Grammar. With the coronation of
Pedro I of Brazil in São Paulo in 1822, he directed his Te Deum in the
cathedral in honor of the future emperor. The same year, when the
independence of Brazil was proclaimed he was in charge of the musical
solemnities in São Paulo. As a composer, his extant output is over than
130 works, mainly sacred.
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