Coelho Machado (Rafael)
Madeiran-born composer and music writer (1814–?) who emigrated to Brazil in 1838 and wrote the first musical dictionary in the Portuguese language.
He was born on this island in 1814 and in 1838 left for Brazil, where he died. He made his name as a composer and writer on music. We know of his works only from the list of them given by Joaquim de Vasconcelos in his esteemed book Musicos Portugueses. Coelho Machado wrote a Diccionario Musical, the first work of its kind to appear in the Portuguese language. His writings include:
- Methodo de musica ou Principios de musica pratica para uso dos principiantes, 1842
- Breve tratado de Harmonia, 1851
- Melodias originaes, some of which were translated into Italian
- Diccionario musical. . . Rio de Janeiro, 1842, 275 pp.
He left many compositions of sacred music, and translated and published various methods for the study of the piano, flute, fiddle, etc.
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- Brazil
Country to which Coelho Machado emigrated in 1838 and where he died.
Brazil is recorded in the Elucidário as a chief destination of Madeiran emigrants, including several clergy and writers. It was also a market for Madeira wine and brandy and a maker of wickerwork from Madeiran osiers. It was linked to Madeira by the 1874 telegraph cable and is the native country of the araçá.
- Rio de Janeiro
Brazil. City where his Diccionario musical was published in 1842.
Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, appears in the Elucidário as the seat of the Portuguese court and as a city where many Madeirans lived, studied, taught, published and died. Among them were Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara, João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia and João da Silveira Caldeira, who headed the Mint there.
People
People mentioned · 02- Rafael Coelho Machadob. 1814
Madeiran composer and writer on music who left for Brazil in 1838 and published the first musical dictionary in Portuguese.
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Author of the book Musicos Portugueses, the source that lists Coelho Machado's works.