(Vila do Príncipe, Brazil 1746 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1805)

Composer and organist, considered the most important brazilian composer of the 18 century. We was musician of  the army of the Minas Gerais state, as an ensign. Mesquita studied music with the padre Manuel da Costa Dantas, chapel-master of the Parish Church of the Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state.

Lobo de Mesquita worked as organist for the Third Order of  Nossa Senhora do Carmo;  (1784 and 1798 ), the composer worked in a town called Tejuco   (nowadays Diamantina), in the churchs of  Santo Antônio and Carmo. In the year of 1798, he went to  Vila Rica (nowadays Ouro Preto), where he was the musical director in the parich church of Nossa Senhora do Pilar.  In  1800 he went to Rio de Janeiro, where he spent the rest of his life. 

Lobo de Mesquita wrote more than 300 works, his works more important are Antífonas de Nossa Senhora (1787), Te Deum, Ladainha   and the  Mass in b flat (1790). Only two autograph scores arrived to our days:  a Antífona de Nossa Senhora, (1787), and the Dominica in Palmis, (1782). All the others scores known nowadays are copies from the 18th and 19th century.

Bibliografia:

Grande Enciclopédia Larousse Cultural

Enciclopédia Tudo - Abril Cultural