Emerico Lobo de Mesquita

Biography

José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (12 October 1746 – April 1805) was a Brazilian composer, music teacher, conductor and organist.

Life

Emerico was born at Vila do Príncipe (now Serro), in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. His parents, José Lobo de Mesquita and Joaquina Emerenciana, gave him a liberal education. He received his first music lessons (organ and music theory) from Father Manuel da Costa Dantas, who was an organist and choirmaster at the church Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Serro. Soon after 1776, he went to Arraial do Tijuco (now Diamantina) to become an organist and conductor at the cathedral Santo Antônio of Diamantina. On 17 January 1789, he entered the religious order Ordem Terceira de Nossa Senhora do Carmo. He founded a music school in this city and was appointed teacher of the art of music. In 1798, he worked in Vila Rica (now Ouro Preto) for the city mayor, and was also organist and choirmaster at the church Nossa Senhora do Pilar. He had a quarrel with the mayor and left for Rio de Janeiro, where he became organist of the Ordem Terceira do Carmo until his death, in April 1805.
Lobo de Mesquita was an important representative of the so-called Escola de Compositores da Capitania das Minas do Ouro (Composers' School of the Gold Mines Region). He was known for his virtuoso organ playing and art of improvisation.

Sacred music

1778 Missa para Quarta-Feira de Cinzas, for soloists, mixed choir, cello and organ
1779 Regina caeli laetare
1780 Missa em fá nº 2, for 4 voices and strings
1782 Missa em mi bemol nº 1, for soloists, mixed choir and strings
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Et in terra pax
Laudamus te
Gratias
Domine Deus
Qui tollis
Suscipe
Qui sedes
Quoniam
Cum Sancto Spiritu
1782 Dominica in Palmis
1782 Ofício e Missa para Domingo de Ramos
1783 Tercio, for 4 voices and strings
1783 Tractus para o Sábado Santo
Cantemus Domino
Vinea facta est
Attende cælum
Sicut cervus
1783 Vésperas de Sábado Santo
1787 Antiphona de Nossa Senhora
1787 Salve Regina
Antífonas para Quarta e Quinta-feira Santas
Antífonas para Quarta, Quinta e Sexta-feira Santas
Ária ao Pregador - Ave Regina
Ave Regina coelorum
Beata Mater
Credo em dó, for 4 voices and strings
Credo em fá
Christus factus est e Ofertório
Diffusa est gratia, concert for soloists, mixed choir and strings
Domingo da Ressurreição
Heu Domine, para a procissão do Enterro do Senhor
Heus, para a Procissão do Enterro do Senhor
In honorem Beatae Mariae (Ladainha)
In pacem in idipsum
Ladainha alternada
Ladainha de Nossa Senhora do Carmo
Ladainha do Senhor Bom Jesus de Matosinhos
Laudate Dominum, para o Sábado de Aleluia
Matinas de Natal
Magnificat
Magnificat alternado
Memento a quatro, em sol menor
Missa concertada e Credo
Missa de Sábado Santo e Magnificat
Missa de Santa Cecília
Missa de Réquiem
Novena das Mercês
Novena de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Novena de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
Novena de São Francisco de Assis
Novena de São José
Ofício das violetas
Officium defunctorum
Ofício e Missa de Defuntos
Ofício de Semana Santa, for 4 voices and strings
Ofício de defuntos ("Ofício das violetas"), for 4 voices and strings
Ofício de defuntos nº 2, for soloists, mixed choir, cello and organ
Paixão, Bradados e Adoração da Cruz, para Sexta-feira Santa
Procissão de Ramos - Cum appropinquaret
Responsório de Santo Antônio - Si quaeris miracula
Salmo nº 112 - Laudate Pueri
Setenário de Nossa Senhora das Dores
Sequência Stabat Mater
Te Deum, for 4 voices and strings
Te Deum, em lá menor
Te Deum em ré

Works for organ

Difusa est Gratia Tércio
Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes