Composers

In 1923 Pedro do Prado became a student at Lisbon’s National Conservatory, where he actively participated as a member of the Student’s Association. Six years later, in that same academic environment, he directed the magazine De Música with Fernando Lopes-Graça as editor. He attended the theory and aesthetics lectures with Luís de Freitas Branco, the counterpoint lectures with António Eduardo da Costa Ferreira, and the piano lectures with Lourenço Varella Cid. He was a founding member of the “Grupo dos Quatro”, which included Armando José Fernandes, Fernando Lopes-Graça and Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos. After having briefly taught music between 1936 and 1941 at the Coimbra Music Institute, he was until the 1970s in charge of the music programme at the National Radio Broadcast Station. He created in this institution the Musical Studies Cabinet, allowing the commissioning of pieces and the employment of Portuguese composers for the production and performance of new music pieces. Pedro do Prado was one of the founding members of the Portuguese Musical Youth and received from the French State the Arts and Literature knighthood citation.

Title of work	Name of Award	Prize	Date	Awarding body	URL	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column	Invisible Column 2
	Arts and Letters Order	Knight Order		French Republic		Paris	France	Notes

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Local	Town	Country	Performer(s)	Notes	Invisible Column
Espiritual Branco	Performance	2009/Jun/06	Das Reservas ao Palco	Museu da Música	Lisbon	Portugal	Carmen Matos (voice), Francisco Sassetti (piano)	Notes
Inscrição para o Túmulo de uma Donzela	Performance	2009/Jun/06	Das Reservas ao Palco	Museu da Música	Lisbon	Portugal	Sara Gonçalves (voice), Francisco Sassetti (piano)	Notes
Inscrição para o Túmulo de uma Donzela	Performance	1986/Mar/05		Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	Jennifer Smith (voice), Gary Peacock (piano)	Notes	Portuguese première
Portuguese première
Inscrição para o Túmulo de uma Donzela	Premiere	1937/May/14		Faculty of Letters - University of Paris	Paris	France	Arminda Corrêa (soprano), Armando José Fernandes (piano)	Notes

Description of Activity	Designation	Period	Organization	URL	Venue	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column
Affiliation with Institutions	Founder of the Portuguese Musical Youth	1948/Jul/10 - 1990/Aug/06	Portuguese Musical Youth	URL	Portuguese Musical Youth	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	http://www.jmp.pt/
Affiliation with Institutions	Director of the Musical Programs Section of the National Radio	1941 - ~ 1970	National Radio		National Radio	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes
Affiliation with Institutions	President of the Lisbon National Conservatory Students' Union	~ 1925 - ~ 1929	Lisbon National Conservatory	URL	Lisbon National Conservatory	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	http://www.em-conservatorio-nacional.rcts.pt/
Media	Director of the Magazine	1929 - 1929	"De Música" Magazine		Lisbon National Conservatory	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes
Teaching	Teacher	1936 - 1941	Coimbra Music Institute		Coimbra Music Institute	Coimbra	Portugal	Notes

	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Photos / Images Photograph	Pedro do Prado 1		Pedro do Prado
	Scores	O Rei Galaor		o rei galaor Pedro do Prado		1937
	Scores	Rapsódia Modal Portuguesa		rapsodia modal portuguesa Pedro do Prado		1936
	Scores	Inscrição para o Túmulo de uma Donzela		inscricao para o tumulo de uma donzela Pedro do Prado		1930
	Scores	Espiritual Branco		espiritual branco Pedro do Prado		1929
	Scores	Pequeno Prelúdio e Fuga		pequeno preludio e fuga Pedro do Prado		1928
	Texts Article	Arte Musical III Série - nº 21-22-23  Pedro de Freitas Branco e a Emissora Nacional	Pedro do Prado		Juventude Musical Portuguesa	1964