Rebelo, Joao Lourenco
Period: Baroque
Born: 1610 in Caminha, Portugal
Died: Wednesday, November 16, 1661 in Quinta de Santo Amaro, Portugal
Nation of Origin: Portugal
Major Works:
Sacred Choral Works (many in polychoral style)
Other Information:
Rebelo was the only composer in the Iberian peninsula that followed the Italian cori spezzati
techniques used by Giovanni Gabrieli.
(Many thanks to musicologist José Bruto da Costa for providing this information.)
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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