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Operas

• A Igreja do Mar (ópera radiofónica em 1 acto)
• D. João e as Sombras

Orchestral music

• Duas Danças do século XVII
• Suite Medieval
• Suite Africana
• Sinfonia "Os Jerónimos"
• Alexandre Herculano

Choral-symphonic music

• As Sete Palavras de Nossa Senhora
• Missa Solene
• Música Bailado Ribatejo
• Muro do Derrete
• Dança da Menina Tonta
• Imagens da terra e do Mar
• Nazaré
• Farsa de Inês Pereira
• A Lenda dos Bailarins

etc.

Concertos

• Quarteto Concertante
• Concerto para Flauta e Orquestra

Chamber works

• Sonata para violino e piano
• Nocturno sobre um soneto de Antero, para violoncelo e piano
• Sonata para violino e violoncelo
• Quarteto de cordas
• Quinteto de sopro

Piano music

• Sonata
• Tema e Variações
• Bagatelas
• O Livro de Maria Frederica

Songs

From many poets like Camões, João de deus, Eugénio de Castro, Ruben Dario, Buendia Manzano, etc.

Choral music

• Missa "Regina Mundi"
• Aveiro (díptico coral)
• Tríptico Vicentino

• Sonata Violino e Violoncelo (1924)
• Missa Solene (1932)
• Danças da Menina Tonta (1941)
• Quarteto Concertante (1943)
• O Livro da Menina Frederica (1955)
• A Igreja do Mar — Ópera (1957)
• Os Jerónimos — Sinfonia (1962)
• Sonata para a Noite de Natal — Orgão (1963). Prémio Nacional

Frederico Guedes de Freitas was born in Lisbon on the 15th of November 1902. He initially studied with his mother Cândida de Araújo Guedes de Freitas, having enrolled in the National Conservatory when he was 13 years old.

The first compositions from his catalogue are from 1922. Worth of mention is the piece Poema sobre uma Écloga de Virgílio (Poem on a Eclogue by Virgil), for string orchestra.

At the same time he was a composer, Frederico de Freitas also developed a career as secondary school teacher. However, it was his eclecticism that earned him the favour of the wider public. This eclecticism allowed him to compose not only pieces like Suite Africana (African Suite) or Quarteto Concertante (Harmonious Quartet), but also a vast gallery of light songs that since then inhabit national popular imagery.

In 1935 Frederico de Freitas was admitted in the National Radio Broadcast Company as orchestra conductor, and since then played a leading role in the music events organized by the Estado Novo government. In 1940 he composed Missa Solene (Solemn Mass), for solo voices, choir and orchestra and Auto de D. Afonso Henriques (King Afonso Henriques Act), both pieces premiered on the Double Celebrations of the 800th Anniversary of Portugal’s Foundation and the 300th Anniversary of the Independence Restoration.

The conductor career, for which he worked very hard, was also internationally recognized, and as a result of that Frederico de Freitas was regularly invited to conduct foreign orchestras.

Among his later pieces, one should mention D. João e as Sombras (D. João and the Shadows, 1960), the symphony Os Jerónimos (1962), Fantasia Concertante (Harmonious Phantasy, 1969) and Farsa de Inês Pereira (The Farse of Inês Pereira, 1979), the latter finished by Manuel Faria after Frederico de Freitas’ death.