Francisco Manoel da Silva (songwriter, regent and professor), was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1775 and died in the same city in 1865. He had great prominence in the musical life of Rio De Janeiro in the period between the death of Priest José Maurício and Carlos Gomes. He was a singer of Capela Real since 1809, later being spandrel and cello player. He was one of the founders of Imperial Academia de Música e Ópera Nacional (National Imperial Music and Opera Academy), of Sociedade Beneficência Musical e Conservatório Imperial de Música, which become Instituto Nacional de Música (Nacional Music Institute) and is called Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro University Music School).

He was mastered by Priest José Maurício Nunes Garcia and, most probably, by Sigismund Neukomm. He was directly responsible for Capela Imperial 's reinstatement, the later being turned to its old beauty. He had also regent's career. He left a handful of works, spread around Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo archives, covering Gospel Music, Modinhas and Lundus.

He wrote Brazil National Anthem (Hino Nacional Brasileiro), first as a patriotic march, since Dom Pedro I resignation, later being officialized as anthem by Brazilian Republic Revolution (1889).