Armando José Fernandes (Lisbon, 26 July 1906 - Lisbon, 3 May 1983) was a neoclassical Portuguese composer; with Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, and Pedro do Prado, one of the "group of four" who dominated mid-20th-century Portuguese music.
[1] After studying at the National Conservatory of Lisbon (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa in Portuguese), he won a three-year scholarship to Paris and became a pupil of, among others, Nadia Boulanger.
[2] Originally trained as a concert pianist, Fernandes came to concentrate more on composition and teaching.
He composed, among other works, a cello sonata, a violin concerto, and numerous piano pieces.
It has been described as "[pursuing] a more conventional neoclassical path, albeit with great finesse".