Fr. Simão dos Anjos (de Gouvea): a biographical note

Abstract

Fr. Simão dos Anjos was a composer whose career developed in the last years of the sixteenth century and first decades of the seventeenth century. He was a friar of the Secular Canons of St. John the Evangelist and worked in Lisbon, Tomar, and Coimbra. Despite living during the so-called Golden Age of Portuguese polyphony, not much is known of his life and career. In this text, gathering the available bibliographical references, we share some notes on his life and work.