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Filipe de Magalhães
Person · male · Kingdom of Portugal · Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão) · born 1571 · died 1652 · recording since 2023
Portuguese composer
Also known as 필리프 드 마갈량이스
Timeline
4 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1570s
1650s
2020s
· Debut release
Debut release: Masses: Veni Domine & Vere Dominus est
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography308 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1284738189
Biography
Filipe de Magalhães (c. 1571–1652) was a Portuguese composer of sacred polyphony.
Life
Filipe de Magalhães was born in Azeitão, Portugal, around 1571. He studied music at the Cathedral of Évora in southern Portugal with Manuel Mendes; there he was a colleague of the equally renowned polyphonists Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso. He was apparently considered by his master Manuel Mendes as his favourite student; the latter left his own manuscripts to Magalhães, in the hope that these would be eventually published.
In 1589 Magalhães replaced Manuel Mendes as mestre do Claustro da Sé. Later, he went to Lisbon to become a member of the Capela Real (Royal Chapel's) choir and then mestre de Capela da Misericórdia. On the 27th of March 1623 he was appointed Mestre da Capela Real, a position he held until 1641.
While at Évora, he was the teacher of Estêvão Lopes Morago, Estêvão de Brito and Manuel Correia, who carried on with the music school of the Cathedral of Évora in the 16th and 17th centuries. He died in Lisbon.
Musical work
Magalhães dedicated himself to the composition of sacred polyphonic works for the liturgy. Most of them were published in collections such as the Missarum Liber, which was dedicated to Philip II of Portugal, and the Cantica Beatissima Virgines, published in Lisbon in 1639. He also wrote a book of plainsong, Cantus Ecclesiasticus, which was published in five different editions (the first ones in Lisbon in 1614 and in Antwerp in 1642, and the last one in 1724).
The catalogue of the Music Library of King John IV of Portugal also mentions one 8-voice Mass, 6-voice Lamentations for Maundy Thursday, one 7-voice Christmas villancico and five 5- and 6-voice motets. All these works are believed to have been lost during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
Source
Évora Distrito Digital, Duarte Lobo e Filipe de Magalhães (in Portuguese)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -371 | 0.9th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
Masses: Veni Domine & Vere Dominus est
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 43 tracks · 1:16:01
1Exsurge, quare obdormis Domine?3:092Veni Domine4:093Missa Veni Domine: Kyrie: Kyrie I0:534Missa Veni Domine: Kyrie: Christe I0:495Missa Veni Domine: Kyrie: Christe II0:496Missa Veni Domine: Kyrie: Kyrie II0:597Missa Veni Domine: Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo2:068Missa Veni Domine: Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere2:099Missa Veni Domine: Credo: Credo in unum Deum3:1910Missa Veni Domine: Credo: Crucifixus1:5611Missa Veni Domine: Credo: Et in Spiritum Sanctum2:2312Missa Veni Domine: Sanctus: Sanctus1:4113Missa Veni Domine: Sanctus: Benedictus1:2614Missa Veni Domine: Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei I1:5215Missa Veni Domine: Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei II / Veni Domine2:0116Magnificat primi toni: Magnificat anima mea Dominum0:4317Magnificat primi toni: Et exsultavit0:4518Magnificat primi toni: Quia respexit1:0519Magnificat primi toni: Quia fecit mihi magna0:5520Magnificat primi toni: Et misericordia eius1:1821Magnificat primi toni: Fecit potentiam0:5322Magnificat primi toni: Deposuit potentes0:5823Magnificat primi toni: Esurientes implevit bonis0:4924Magnificat primi toni: Suscepit Israel1:0925Magnificat primi toni: Sicut locutus est0:5526Magnificat primi toni: Gloria Patri0:5927Magnificat primi toni: Sicut erat in principio1:1528Vere Dominus est: Vere Dominus est3:4829Vere Dominus est: Haec est domus Domini3:4430Missa Vere Dominus est: Kyrie: Kyrie I0:5331Missa Vere Dominus est: Kyrie: Christe I1:0032Missa Vere Dominus est: Kyrie: Christe II0:5333Missa Vere Dominus est: Kyrie: Kyrie II1:0834Missa Vere Dominus est: Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo1:5435Missa Vere Dominus est: Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere2:3336Missa Vere Dominus est: Credo: Credo in unum Deum3:0037Missa Vere Dominus est: Credo: Crucifixus1:4738Missa Vere Dominus est: Credo: Et in Spiritum Sanctum2:3039Missa Vere Dominus est: Sanctus: Sanctus1:4840Missa Vere Dominus est: Sanctus: Benedictus1:4041Missa Vere Dominus est: Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei I1:4842Missa Vere Dominus est: Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei II2:3143Commissa mea pavesco3:39
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Filipe de Magalhães head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -371 | 0.9th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2151720seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipe_de_Magalh%C3%A3esbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Wikidata: Q2151720 · MusicBrainz: 66b7696a-3cb6-4ccb-9195-ef4c5b482a13