Carlos Seixas, Portuguese organist and composer (born 1704)

Carlos Seixas

Portuguese composer (1704–1742)

José António Carlos de Seixas was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas succeeded his father as the organist for Coimbra Cathedral at the age of fourteen. In 1720, he departed for the…