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Carlos Seixas, Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (died 1742)
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Harpsichord
Plucked-string keyboard instrument
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one or more strings. The strings are under tension on a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)