PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS: 
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
José António Carlos de Seixas
Portuguese composer José António Carlos de Seixas was born in Coimbra on 11 June 1704 into a musical family.
He worked as a cathedral organist and later as court harpsichordist and organist in Lisbon.
His keyboard compositions demonstrate several different styles - Baroque, galant and Empfindsamkeit - and show the influence of French, German and Italian composers.
Carlos Seixas died in Lisbon on 25 August 1742, aged thirty-eight. Much of his huge output was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.