Person jurist musician civil servant
Manuel dos Passos Freitas
b. 1872
jurist · musician · civil servant · landowner
Calheta-born lawyer, first head of the secretariat and later secretary of the Junta Geral of Funchal, and a distinguished musician. He directed the Septeto Passos de Freitas and founded and conducted the Orfeão Madeirense in 1921.
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- Madeiran Choral Society — Musician and lawyer who conducted the Orfeão Madeirense in 1921.
- Requinta de Braga — Informant who supplied the Elucidário with the instrument's tuning.
- St Joseph (chapels) — Had a São José chapel built in 1915 beside his residence at Vale da Bica, Calheta.
- Music — Lawyer and mandolinist who led a Funchal musical group and founded an orfeão in 1921.
- Music — Director of the celebrated Septeto Passos de Freitas in Madeira.
- Administrative autonomy — First head of the secretariat of the Junta Geral of Funchal.
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