Rebelo, Joao

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

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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

Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629

Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967

Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390

Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257


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Baroque Music
by Claude V. Palisca

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