page_title: Music history of Portugal
section_title: Chapel of the Dukes of Bragança at Vila Viçosa
hierarchical_section_title: Music history of Portugal / The Mannerist Period (2nd half 16th and 17th centuries) / Other centres of musical activity in the 17th century / Chapel of the Dukes of Bragança at Vila Viçosa
caption_attribution_description: English: Museu de Evora
context_page_description: Being one of the most ancient nation-states in Europe, Portugal is proud of its long music history, which accompanied and strongly contributed to the development of the outstanding music history in Europe. The music history of Portugal first started with Queen Amelia
context_section_description: During the Spanish domination, the duke of Bragança retired to his palace in Vila Viçosa. The ducal chapel maintained a magnificent liturgy and, in 1609, Teodósio II founded the Santos Reis Magos College, working in a similar way to the Évora school. Roberto Tornar, mestre de Capela at Vila Viçosa, would become the musical instructor of the young Duke of Barcelos, D. João (later D. João IV, king of Portugal). This king, both before and after succeeding to the Portuguese throne, enlarged immensely the musical library of his father, transforming it in the biggest musical library of the time in Europe. Further, João IV was a composer and a theorist himself, as well as a devoted patron of João Lourenço Rebelo (1610–1661), whose works he would send for printing at Rome. Robelo, some of whose pieces have been issued on CD, composed in an innovative style, making use of  opulent polychoral writing à la Giovanni Gabrieli and combining it with the more conservative idiom of Palestrina.
caption: João Lourenço Rebelo, pictured by José de Avelar Rebelo, c. 1646.
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