João Lourenço Rebelo [SEP] date of death
, and is now preserved in the library of the Episcopal Seminary of Münster. A modern transcription have been released in 1982 by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation "monumenta" edition "Portugaliae Musica".
Also four volumes of the original impression survived in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, from the Jesuit College of "Santo Antão".
João Lourenço Rebelo died at Apelação (Loures) on 16 November 1661.
Music, style and influence.
Currently, only forty-four compositions are known from Rebelo, all published by
João Lourenço Rebelo
João Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo (1610 – 16 November 1665) was the only Portuguese composer to adopt the Venetian polychoral style. Despite his closeness to the king John IV of Portugal (1603–1656), and despite what is traditionally said, Rebelo never held any office in the royal household.
Life.
Rebelo was born in Caminha in 1610, son of João Soares Pereira and Maria Lourenço Rebelo. In 1624, became a choir boy at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, while