O Canto coral e o Orfeon de Condeixa. Conferencia realizada no Concerto do Orfeon, no Teatro da Republica, em Lisboa.

Lisbon, Editora Limitida, (1916).. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original decorated wrappers (minor wear, principally fraying at head and foot of spine). Woodcut border with floral design on title page and front wrapper. Overall in good to very good condition. 27, (1) pp., (1, 1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION of a speech made at the opening of Lisbon's Orfeon de Condeixa, with reflections on the tradition of choral singing in Portugal. There exists a 2002 reprint.Afonso Lopes Vieira (Leiria, 1878-Lisbon, 1946) was Portugal's best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as Redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, S. Pedro de Moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.The author's earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g., Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early Portuguese literature, aiming to "reaportuguesar Portugal tornando-o europeau." During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited Montemayor's Diana, the Amadis, and Rodrigues Lobo. His Portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the review Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote works for children, e.g,. Animais nossos amigos, 1911, and Canto infantil, 1912.*** Santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, pp. 14 & 31. See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001) p. 961; Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 337: "There is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future." Also Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501–2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844–6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214–6. Porbase locates three copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Jisc repeats British Library only. NUC: NN, WU.