Correia, Manuel António

Manuel António Correia (1808-1887) was a military band master, trumpet, bugle and cornet player, and a composer. After studying as a musician in the military he became a member of the professional association, the St Cecilia Brotherhood in Lisbon, on 20 May 1843. He was the second trumpet of the S. Carlos theatre orchestra and while there received instruction in harmony from his younger colleague, Francisco António Norberto dos Santos Pinto (1815-1860). He gained a reputation as a composer and arranger for windband. Later in life he wrote chamber and sacred works dedicated to Fernando Luis de Sousa Coutinho (1835-1928), the third Marquês de Borba.

Ernesto Vieira, Diccionario biographico de musicos portuguezes: historia e bibliographia da musica em Portugal, 2 vols. (Lisbon: Typographia Mattos Moreira & Pinheiro, 1900), i, p. 297.