Lacerda, Francisco (In?cio da Silveira de Sousa Pereira Forjaz) de
Lacerda, Francisco (Inάcio da Silveira de Sousa Pereira Forjaz) de
Lacerda, Francisco (Inάcio da Silveira de Sousa Pereira Forjaz) de, Portuguese conductor, musicologist, and composer; b. Ribeira Seca, S. Jorge, Azores, May 11, 1869; d. Lisbon, July 18, 1934. He studied at the Lisbon Cons., then received a government stipend for study in Paris, where he took a course with d’lndy at the Schola Cantorum. In Paris he associated himself with Bourgault-Ducoudray and worked with him in the International Folklore Assn. He also conducted concerts. At the outbreak of World War I (1914), he returned to Portugal, where he later founded the Orquesta Filarmonica in Lisbon (1923). He ed. the important Cancioneiro musical português (Lisbon, 1935-36), a collection of some 500 folk songs. Among his compositions are the symphonic poems Adamastor (1902) and Almourol 1926), several ballets, incidental music, and piano pieces.
Bibliography
F. de Sousa, F. d.L.: Exposiçao commemorativa do primeiro centenario donascimento (Lisbon, 1969).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire