João Rodrigues Esteves

João Rodrigues Esteves (c. 1699 – 1 November 1755) was a Portuguese composer of religious music. His surviving works number close to 100. His manuscripts are all housed in Portuguese libraries, mostly in the Lisbon Cathedral archive. He is first mentioned in 1719 when he was brought to Rome under King João V in order to study with composer Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni. By 1726 he was back in Portugal.… More