Depois de Bomtempo: a Escola de Música do Conservatório Real de Lisboa nos anos de 1842-1862

Abstract

This article deals with the organization and functioning of the Escola de Música of the Real Conservatório of Lisbon during the period it was under the leadership of its second director Francisco Xavier Migone. Soon becoming the most consistent project among the several branches of the Conservatório, the Escola de Música will adapt itself to the new circumstances, conditions and demands, always without the support of the official entities. An attempt is made to sketch a picture of the everyday life of the only official music school in nineteenth-century Portugal, examining its teachers and students, its study plans and their development and its importance in its time.