The possibility of recording sound and reproducing it entails, from the beginning, the need for physical mediums: shellac cylinders, stone or vinyl discs, and magnetic tape. Their recording and their subsequent reproduction involve friction on the material they are made of: it follows and traces...
El Museu de la Música - Centre Robert Gerhard is screening Sisters with Transistors, a film that accurately portrays a narrative that has been ignored by a large part of the historiography of music and academic institutions: the foundation created by pioneering women in electronic music...
The documentary Sofia Gubaidulina. The Forgotten Piano was premiered in the framework of the Quincena Musical Donostiarra in 2010, and is presented to the public for the first time in 2023 at the Museo de la Música in Barcelona.
CROSSROADS, TRAILS, SUNLIT PATHS AND SHADES OF LIVING
This exhibit journeys through the imprint left by composer and musicologist Xavier Carbonell i Castell (Barcelona, 1952–Palma, 2022). Structured around five tableaux designed by the author, compiling traces of his life history, and in...
This temporary exhibition focuses on the figure of Robert Gerhard (1896-1970) to bring us closer to the most versatile Catalan composer (pianist, composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and intellectual). He was one of the most important figures in Catalan, Hispanic and European music of the 20th...
