Jose Jaoquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita

Jose Jaoquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (1746-1805)

            Jose Jaoquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita was born in 1746 and died in 1805. He was a Brazilian composer and organist. In 1788 he became a part of the brotherhood of Nossa Senhora das Merces dos Homens Crioulos. He was also a mulatto. In Vila Rica he was a composer, conductor and organist.

            He was one of the most creative composers of the “Brazilian captaincy”. He was so important that in the Brazilian Academy of Music he was chosen patron of Chair no.4. He stayed in Rio de Janeiro where he played the organ at a church.

           

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerico_Lobo_de_Mesquita

Gerard Béhague. "Lobo de Mesquita, José Joaquim Emerico." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 11 Mar. 2012 <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/18488>.

Discography:

Sacred Music:

Autograph score of the Salve Regina

• Mass for Ash Wednesday, for soloists, mixed chorus, cello and organ (1778)
• Regina Caeli laetare (1779)
• Mass No. 2 in F for 4 voices and strings (1780)
• Mass in E flat 1, for soloists, mixed chorus and strings (1782)
1. Kyrie eleison
2. Christe eleison
3. Et in terra pax
4. Laudamus you
5. Gratias
6. God Master
7. Thu Tollis
8. Suscipe
9. Fri headquarters
10. Quoniam
11. Cum Sancto Spiritu
• Palmis in Dominica (1782)
• Office and Mass for Palm Sunday (1782)
• Tercio for four voices and strings (1783)
• Tractus for Holy Saturday (1783)
1. Cantemus Domino
2. Vinea FACTA est
3. Caelum Attende
4. Sicut cervus
• Vespers of Holy Saturday (1783)
• Antiphona of Our Lady (1787)
• Salve Regina (1787)
• Antiphons for Sunday and Holy Thursday
• Antiphons for Wednesday, Thursday and Holy Friday
• Aria the Preacher - Ave Regina
• Ave Regina coelorum
• Beata Mater
• Creed in C, for 4 voices and strings
• Credo in F
• Factus Christus est and Offertory
• Diffusa est gratia concerto soloists, mixed choir and strings
• Easter Sunday
• Heu Lord, for the procession of the Burial of the Lord
• Heus, for the Burial Procession of the Lord
• In honorem Beatae Mariae (Litany)
• In pacem in idipsum
• Litany alternating
• Litany of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
• Litany of the Good Jesus of Matosinhos
• Laudate Dominum, for Holy Saturday
• Matins of Christmas
• Magnificat
• Magnificat switched
• Memento four in G minor
• Mass concerted and Creed
• Holy Saturday Mass and Magnificat
• Mass of St. Cecilia
• Requiem mass
• Novena of Mercy
• Novena of Our Lady of Conception
• Novena of Our Lady of the Rosary
• Novena of St. Francis of Assisi
• Novena to St. Joseph
• Office of violets
• Officium defunctorum
• Office and Mass of the Dead
• Office of Holy Week, for 4 voices and strings
• Requiem ("Office of violets"), for 4 voices and strings
• Requiem 2, for soloists, mixed chorus, cello and organ
• Passion, Bradados and Adoration of the Cross for Good Friday
• Procession of Palms - Cum appropinquaret
• Responsory of St. Anthony - Si quaeris miracula
• Psalm No. 112 - Laudate Pueri
• Septenary of Our Lady of Sorrows
• Sequence Stabat Mater
• Te Deum, for 4 voices and strings
• Te Deum in A minor
• Te Deum in D

Music for the organ:

• Fuzzy est Gratia Tertius
• Domine, tu mihi lavas ask

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