Francisco Martins

Francisco Martins Born: c.1620 (J. A. Alegria, in Portugaliae Musica 50 1991, arrives at 1617 by various age requirement rules) Died: 20 March 1680. The Portuguese composer Francisco Martins was born in Évora c.1620 or c.1625 and died in Elvas, 20 March 1680. He became a choirboy at Évora Catedral, where his uncle Domingos Martins de Almeida had been master of the choirboys from 1608 to c.1618. There have been appointed two possible dates: Domingos Barbosa Machado in his Bibliotheca Lusitana (1759) points to 20 June 1629