Miguel da Fonseca

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Miguel da Fonseca , also called Manuel da Fonseca , (* in the 15th or 16th century; † in the 16th century; active between 1540 and 1544) was a Portuguese Renaissance composer.

In the first half of the 1540s, Fonseca was the first to be known by name - if not the first - Kapellmeister of the Cathedral of Braga . He was probably called to this position by Archbishop Henrique . Presumably he also worked for his successor bishops Diogo II. Da Silva (1540/41) and Dom Duarte (1542/43), the illegitimate son of the Portuguese King John III. Through a letter from the cathedral chapter to King John III. he can still be documented as Kapellmeister in 1544. Fonseca, together with his successors Pero de Gamboa and Lourenço Ribeiro, forms the Braga School of Composers in Portuguese vocal polyphony . During the ten-year absence of the Archbishop, the cathedral chapter allowed itself a great deal of creative freedom and commissioned Fonseca and his successors to compose polyphonic proprias , but not mass ordinaries . In the modern reception school of Braga is of course in the shadow of the later school of Évora to Estêvão de Brito , Filipe de Magalhães , Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso .

Fonseca is known for his compositions handed down in the Liber Introitus . Of the 85 choral compositions in this collection, 33 are assigned by name to Fonseca, but stylistic reasons suggest that the rest of the collection, with the exception of an Agnus Dei by Josquin Desprez, also come from Fonseca. A copy of this work from 1615 in Braga has been preserved. His Beata viscera is probably a piece from the introit of the no longer practiced rite of Braga, as it is passed down in a missal from 1498. Stylistically, his compositions show the influence of the Spanish music theorist Matheo de Aranda (around 1495–1548).

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  1. ↑ The apparently only contemporary mention of the full name in a letter from the cathedral chapter of Braga (1544) reads “Migel de FonSequa”, cf. Robert Murrell Stevenson: Pedro de Escobar: Earliest Portuguese Composer in New World Colonial Music Manuscripts. In: Inter-American Music Review. Vol. 11, 1990, pp. 3-24, here p. 7, footnote 22.
  2. ↑ LCCN  no96-011096
  3. ↑ a b c d Booklet text for the CD Portuguese Polyphony , Naxos 8.553310. Naxos , June 1995, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ Robert Murrell Stevenson: Pedro de Escobar: Earliest Portuguese Composer in New World Colonial Music Manuscripts. In: Inter-American Music Review. Vol. 11, 1990, ISSN  0195-6655 , pp. 3–24, here p. 7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ João Pedro d'Alvarenga, Rui Cabral Lopes: A polifonia na liturgia bracarense (primeira metade do século XVI). In: Ana Maria Rodrigues, Manuel Pedro Ferreira (eds.): A Catedral de Braga: Arte, Liturgia e Música, dos fins do século XI à época tridentina. Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-989-95983-2-4 , pp. 152-195 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Stefan Gasch: The polyphonic Ordinarium Missae as a “musical work of art”? In: Andrea Ammendola, Daniel Glowotz, Jürgen Heidrich (eds.): Polyphonic measuring in the 15th and 16th centuries: function, context, symbol. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-822-5 , pp. 39–52, here p. 46 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ João Pedro d'Alvarenga: Pero de Gamboa e Lourenço Ribeiro pelo Coro Gulbenkian. Secretariado nacional da pastoral da cultura, accessed on 7 August 2019 (Portuguese).
  8. ^ A b c João Pedro d'Alvarenga, Manuel Pedro Ferreira: The Liber Introitus of Miguel da Fonseca, and a Possible Improvisatory Model. In: David J. Burn, Stefan Gasch (eds.): Heinrich Isaac and Polyphony for the Proper of the Mass in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Brepols, Turnhout 2011, ISBN 978-2-503-54249-2 , pp. 81-121.
  9. ↑ Naxos. Manuel da Fonseca (composer entry).
  10. ↑ Mateus de Aranda: Tractado de canto mensurable. German Galhard, Lisbon 1535 ( online : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project ); Facsimile: José Augusto Alegria (Ed.): Tractado de Canto Mensurable: de Mateus de Aranda. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 1978, OCLC 958957940 .
personal data
SURNAME Fonseca, Miguel there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fonseca, Manuel there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese composer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century