Carrara, Fabio Massimo

Fabio Massimo Carrara (c.1800-1869) was an Italian tenor, composer and teacher who came to Lisbon in 1825, establishing himself there definitively in 1841, when he became a teacher at the national conservatory, and a year later, a member of the professional organisation, the St Cecilia Brotherhood. He was closely associated with the Conde de Farrobo, Joaquim Pedro Quintela (1801-1869). Few details are known of his professional career, though Vieira remarked that he was regarded highly and operated adeptly within the social circles he found himself.  

Ernesto Vieira, Diccionario biographico de musicos portuguezes: historia e bibliographia da musica em Portugal, 2 vols. (Lisbon: Typographia Mattos Moreira & Pinheiro, 1900), i, pp. 221-222.