Moniz (João Cirilo)
Brief biography of João Cirilo Moniz (1818–1871), a Funchal-born musician who settled in Rio de Janeiro, founded a society for free instruction and published a short music textbook.
We know of this Madeiran through the references to him that we have found in volumes X and XI of Inocêncio Francisco da Silva’s Diccionario Bibliographico. He was born in Funchal on 28 January 1818 and died in Niterói, Brazil, on 2 June 1871. In 1809 he accompanied his father to Rio de Janeiro, where he studied piano and singing. He belonged to various societies and in that city founded one devoted to providing free instruction. He published a pamphlet entitled Breve compêndio de musica, dedicated to Her Highness the Most Serene Imperial Princess Dona Leopoldina. It seems that he left several unpublished works intended for the study of music, but we have no knowledge of them.
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Abroad
- Brazil
Country to which Moniz emigrated 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.
- Funchal
Birthplace of João Cirilo Moniz.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Rio de Janeiro
Brazil. City where Moniz studied music and founded a society for free instruction.
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 · 03- João Cirilo Moniz1818–1871
Madeiran musician born in Funchal who studied piano and singing in Rio de Janeiro, founded a society there for free instruction and wrote a 'Breve compêndio de musica'.
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Brazilian imperial princess to whom Moniz dedicated his 'Breve compêndio de musica'.
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Author of the Diccionario Bibliographico, whose volumes X and XI are the Elucidário's source for Moniz.