Antônio dos Santos Cunha

Antônio dos Santos Cunha was a Portuguese or Brazilian composer who was active in São João del-Rei in Minas Gerais, Brazil, from 1800 to 1822. He was probably Portuguese but biographical details are lacking. S

Santos Cunha lived in São João del-Rei from 1786, when he was already an adult. He joined the Lay Carmelites in 1800. In 1815 he traveled to Lisbon, but the date of a presumed return to Brazil is unknown.[1] His importance rests in the volume of sacred works he left marking the entry of romantic influence into the sacred music of the region.[2]

Recordings
  • Responsorios para officio da Sexta-feira Santa - Ensemble Turicum, directed Silva and Weibel, K617

References
  1. Goldberg: Early Music Magazine 2005 - Issues 36-37 p.91 "Antonio dos Santos Cunha lived in Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil, from 1786, when he was already an adult, to 1815, when he went to Lisbon. Sao Joao is now the seat of a bishop just inland from Rio de Janeiro, but in the eighteenth century it was part of the diocese of Sao Paulo. His date and place of birth and death are unknown, and he is not mentioned in The New Grove"
  2. Texts from Brazil 2007- Issue 12 - Page 30 "In Sao Joao del-Rei, the most important composers were Antonio dos Santos Cunha, Father Manuel Camelo, Joao Jose das Chagas, Francisco Martiniano de Paula Miranda and Lourenco Jose Fernandes Braziel. Santos Cunha represents, along with Father Joao de Deus, the start of romantic influences over music produced in the mines region. ... his birth and death are ignored.
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