Fernando Lopes-Graça, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fernando Lopes-Graça

Portuguese composer

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1906

Place of Birth: Tomar, Santarém District, Portugal

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1994

Profession: composer, conductor, musicologist

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Fernando Lopes-Graça, GOSE, GCIH (17 December 1906 – November 27, 1994) was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist. Lopes-Graça was born in Tomar, and was influenced by Portuguese popular music, which he also studied, continuing the work of the composer and musicologist Francisco de Lacerda. He was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party and strenuously opposed the Estado Novo and its leader António de Oliveira Salazar. He completed the Dicionário de Música (Dictionary of Music), started by his teacher, Tomás Borba, himself a composer.
He died in Parede, near Cascais.