Armando José Fernandes
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Composition list
Chamber music
Symphonic music
Opera and lyrical music
Instrumental music
Concertante music
Vocal music
Compositions sorted on opus (if available)
Op. 1
Op. 2
Op. 4
Sheet music for Armando Jose Fernandes
Brisa — Sueudo Fernandes
Alto Recorder and Piano — Set of Parts — 21st Century
Composed by Sueudo Fernandes. 21st Century. Set of Parts. 4 pages. Sueudo Fernandes #COI0002. Published by Sueudo Fernandes (S0.8571).
Price: $2.00
Andre M. Santos: Sounds of a Different Universe — Joao Vidinha; Salvador Parola; Candido Fernandes; Sergio Neves; Bruno Graca; Carisa Marcelino; Miguel Vieira da Silva; Marco Fernandes; Andre M. Santos
— listening CD — Classical
By Joao Vidinha; Salvador Parola; Candido Fernandes; Sergio Neves; Bruno Graca; Carisa Marcelino; Miguel Vieira da Silva; Marco Fernandes; Andre M. Santos. By Andre M. Santos. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.RR7943).
Price: $14.00
Fernandes: Eso Rigor E'Repente for Chorus (optional) and Orchestra (Full Score) — Gaspar Fernandes
Choir,SATB,Full Orchestra,Chamber Orchestra,Flute 1.,Flute 2. (also Piccolo),Oboe 1.,Oboe 2.,Clarinet in Bb 1.,Clarinet in Bb 2.,Bassoon 1.,Bassoon 2.,Horn in F 1.,Horn in F 2.,Trumpet in C 1.,Trumpet in C 2.,Percussion 1.,Percussion 2.,Percussion 3.,Sopra — Score — Renaissance
Composed by Gaspar Fernandes. Arranged by Xavier Pagès-Corella. Renaissance. Score. 22 pages. Published by Influx Sheet Music (S0.675211).
Price: $14.00
Fernandes: Eso Rigor E'Repente for Chorus (optional) and Orchestra (Parts) — Gaspar Fernandes
Choir,SATB,Full Orchestra,Chamber Orchestra,Flute 1.,Flute 2. (also Piccolo),Oboe 1.,Oboe 2.,Clarinet in Bb 1.,Clarinet in Bb 2.,Bassoon 1.,Bassoon 2.,Horn in F 1.,Horn in F 2.,Trumpet in C 1.,Trumpet in C 2.,Percussion 1.,Percussion 2.,Percussion 3.,Sopra — Set of Parts — Renaissance
Composed by Gaspar Fernandes. Arranged by Xavier Pagès-Corella. Renaissance. Set of Parts. 20 pages. Published by Influx Sheet Music (S0.675215).
Price: $29.00
Fernandes: Eso Rigor E'Repente for Chorus (optional) and Orchestra (Chorus Part) — Gaspar Fernandes
Choir,SATB,Full Orchestra,Chamber Orchestra,Flute 1.,Flute 2. (also Piccolo),Oboe 1.,Oboe 2.,Clarinet in Bb 1.,Clarinet in Bb 2.,Bassoon 1.,Bassoon 2.,Horn in F 1.,Horn in F 2.,Trumpet in C 1.,Trumpet in C 2.,Percussion 1.,Percussion 2.,Percussion 3.,Sopra — Individual Part — Renaissance
Composed by Gaspar Fernandes. Arranged by Xavier Pagès-Corella. Renaissance. Individual Part. 14 pages. Published by Influx Sheet Music (S0.675223).
Price: $2.00
Allegretto in bminor by sor from the guitar adapted for solo piano by Armando Garcia (C)2016 — Fernando Sor
Piano Solo — — Classical Period,European
Composed by Fernando Sor (1778-1839). Arranged by Armando Garcia. Classical Period, European. 3 pages. Published by Armando L Garcia (S0.106863).
Price: $2.00
polonaise by JS Bach arr for guitar by Armando Garcia (C) 2015 — J s Bach
Guitar,solo guitar arr — Score — Baroque Period
Composed by J s Bach. Arranged by Armando Garcia. Baroque Period. Score. 2 pages. Published by Armando L Garcia (S0.90181).
Price: $2.00
Ghidoni Armando Adagio Flute & Piano Or Harp Book — Armando Ghidoni
Flute — Softcover —
Composed by Armando Ghidoni. Leduc. Softcover. 12 pages. Alphonse Leduc #AL28883. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48185367).
Price: $14.00
Violin Concerto; Symphony No. — Da Costa; Orchestre Symphonique D'Extremadura; Amigo
— listening CD —
By Da Costa; Orchestre Symphonique D'Extremadura; Amigo. By Armando Jose Fernandes & Others. Listening CD. Published by ATMA Classique (NX.ACD2-2578).
Price: $16.00
Violin Concerto & Sonata — Damas
— listening CD —
By Damas, Tomasik, Mission Chamber Orchestra, and Ray. By Armando Jose Fernandes. Listening CD. Published by Brilliant Classics (NX.BRI94746).
Price: $7.00
Essential works
Piano music
- 5 Preludes
- Sonata
- Sonatina
- Prelude and Fugue
Chamber music
- Sonata a Tre
- String Trio with piano
- Sonata for violin and piano
- Sonata for cello and piano
Concertos
- Fantasia (piano and orchestra)
- Concerto for piano and string orchestra
- Concerto for violin and orchestra
- Suite Concertante (harpsichord and orchestra)
Orchestral
- Lisbon’s Earthquake (symphonic poem)
Ballet
- O Homem do cravo na boca
Armando José Fernandes took a degree in Engineering before deciding in 1924 to dedicate himself to music, an art form he had felt attracted to from an early age.
He started his studies in 1927 at Lisbon’s National Conservatory. Alexandre Rey Colaço and Varela Cid (piano), Luís de Freitas Branco (Music Sciences) and António Eduardo da Costa Ferreira (Composition) were among his teachers. He finished the course in 1931 and was awarded the first prize in piano and also the Rodrigo da Fonseca Award.
Between 1934 and 1937, with the sponsorship of the National Education Council, he developed his piano and composition studies in Paris with Alfred Cortot, Nadia Boulanger, Paul Dukas and Igor Stravinsky. Between 1940 and 1942, he taught Piano and Composition at the Music Amateurs Academy.
From 1942 on he worked exclusevely as a composer for the Musical Studies Department of the National Radio Broadcast Company.
In 1953 he joined Lisbon’s National Conservatory as a Composition teacher. He honourably retired from this position on his 70th birthday.
Although his lineage, harmonically chromatic in the colours and formally neo-classic in spirit, denounces a cosmopolitan character, permeable both to the sensitivity of someone like Fauré as well as to the constructivism of someone like Hindemith, it also displays a certain kind of Portuguese inspiration, thanks to the likely search for motivation in Portuguese popular themes.
Armando José Fernandes received the composition awards Moreira de Sá (Porto, Orpheon Portuense, 1944) and Círculo de Cultura Musical (Lisbon, 1946).