In 1808, when French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) invaded Portugal, Prince D. Joao VI (1767-1826) fled to Rio de Janeiro and eventually obtained governance of Brazil. As a first step, he appointed his own bishop and other persons in charge of the cathedral there, who in turn influenced how Father Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830), the Mulatto chief musician of the cathedral from 1808 to 1811, functioned theologically, musically, and culturally.Along with other Mulatto chapel masters like Francisco Gomes da Rocha (1745-1808), Marcos Coelho Neto...