(1767 - 1830)

Priest Jose Maurício, born in Rio de Janeiro, in September 22 of 1767, son of mulato parents, a tailor and a  daughter of slaves. He started his musical studies early. Music, in this time, was played only in the churches, and it influenced his sacerdotal vocation when Jose was a young man. He was nominated master-of-chapel and organist of the cathedral of Rio de Janeiro in 1798, and also was a famous music teacher,  having as pupil Francisco Manuel Da Silva, author of the National Hymn. He wrote about 400 works   (of these, only four are profane), as the Mass in B Flat , Mass of Requiem and the Mass for the Night of Christmas.