José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

d’Arneiro, (José Augusto) Ferreira Veiga, Viscount, Portuguese composer; b.
Macao, China, Nov.
22, 1838; d.
San Remo, July 7, 1903.
He studied with Botelho, Schira, and Soares in Lisbon.
He wrote a ballet, Gina (Lisbon, 1866), a Te Deum (Lisbon, 1871), and the operas L’Elisire di Giovinezza (Lisbon, March 31, 1876) and La Derelitta(Lisbon, 1885). José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro (22 November 1838 – 7 June 1903) was a Portuguese composer. José Augusto Ferreira Veiga was born on 22 November 1838 in Portuguese Macau.Member of a business family he studied music in Lisbon to become a composer.Performed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos on 31 March 1876, his opera-ballet L’elisir di giovinezza (Jean-Jacques Magne) didn't became popular with the public, which led José Veiga to present it the following year in Milan, Italy, at the Teatro Dal Verme.
This presentention in 1877 also failed to win public favour.
The composer then adapted the music to a new libretto by Rudolfo Paravicini, that was based on an English novel by Ann Radcliffe.
The new version, now a melodrama tragico named Dina la derelitta was finally accepted by audiences after being performed at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos on 14 March 1885.Visconde de Arneiro would write an opera, entitled Don Bibas, based on Alexandre Herculano’s previously unknown novel O Bobo (The Jester) but it has never been performed.José Augusto Ferreira Veiga died on 7 June 1903 in San Remo, Italy.

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