Afonso Vaz da Costa, (Lisbon, ? - Ávila, April 5, 1660) was a Portuguese composer and master of a chapel active in Badajoz and Ávila. It seems that Vaz de Acosta was educated in Rome, according to Barbosa Machado in his Lusitanian Library The first news of the master is from 1626, when he was appointed master of the chapel of the Cathedral of Badajoz after winning the opposition: The choice fell in another Portuguese. On May 12, 1626, Alfonso Vaz de Acosta, a native of Lisbon, was appointed chapel master.
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