Fernando Lopes-Graça [SEP] place of birth
Fernando Lopes-Graça
Fernando Lopes-Graça, (Tomar, 17 December 1906 – Parede, near Cascais, November 27, 1994) was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist.
Lopes-Graça was influenced by Portuguese popular music, which he also studied, continuing the work of the composer and musicologist Francisco de Lacerda.
He was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party and strenuously opposed the "Estado Novo" and its leader António de Oliveira Salazar.
He completed the "Dicionário de Música" (
Centenary in 1940; the S. Carlos Theatre was then reopened after a restoration with an opera by the regime semi-official composer Ruy Coelho. Curiously, the most important figure of Portuguese musical life in that period is a composer who openly contested the régime and its aesthetic orientations and who, consequently, was forced to do his entire activity outside the institutional circuits: Fernando Lopes Graça.
The 20th century The turn of the 20th century Lopes Graça.
Fernando Lopes Graça (1906–1995) was student of Tomás Borba, Luiz de Freitas