Carlos Seixas
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Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas (Coimbra, 11 June, 1704 - Lisbon, 25 August, 1742), Portuguese musician and composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes.
When he was fourteen, he succeeded his father as organist in 1718 and two years later moved to Lisbon, where he gave harpsichord lessons and met Domenico Scarlatti. It is claimed that when the king's son, Dom Antonio, arranged for Scarlatti to give Seixas harpsichord lessons, Scarlatti replied that it was Seixas who should give him lessons. Seixas later became organist in the court chapel and Lisbon cathedral as well as court composer. He was knighted in 1738 by John V of Portugal.
Much of his work was destroyed in the earthquake which devastated Lisbon in 1755. Only a three orchestral pieces and around 100 keyboard sonatas survive.
Macario Santiago Kastner published collections of the sonatas in Portugaliae Musica.
Seixas Recordings
- [1] (http://www.concerto.demon.co.uk/Labels/AmonRa.html)Amon Ra CD-SAR 43 Harpsichord Sonatas played by Robert Woolley on a
harpsichord made by Joaquim Joze Antunes in Portugal in 1785. The instrument is in the Finchcocks collection, Goudhurst, Kent, United Kingdom. The recording was made at Finchcocks in December 1988.
- [2] (http://www.stradavarius.it/)Stradivarius STR 33544 Keyboard Sonatas played by Bernard Brauchli on a copy of a clavichord
after Manuel Carmo, Porto 1796. The recording was made in Switzerland in December 1998.
- [3] (http://www.virginclassics.com/)Virgin Veritas 45114 Harpsichord Concerto, etc. played by Norwegian Baroque Orchestra - Ketil
Haugsand.
- [4] (http://www.virginclassics.com/)Virgin Veritas 45115 Missa Dixit Dominus, etc. played by Camara de Lisboa / Norwegian Baroque
Orchestra - Ketil Haugsand.