Publications

Albéniz, I. (2011)

Marcha militar para piano por el niño de 8 años Isaac Albéniz

Barcelona: Museu de la Música, Bellaterra Música.

None reissue of this piece is known. Therefore, the Museu de la Música in Barcelona, which keeps a copy of that first edition in its collection, has had the iniciative of editing it in facsimile format as it was presented at the end of the nineteenth century.

It is a simple piece, triumphantly marked, that musically illustrates the effect of marching troops. Sometimes this situation was experimented by the young Albéniz because of the military status of his father. It is dedicated to General Prim (Viscount of Bruch), a personal friend of Angel Albéniz.

This facsimile complements the recent edition of the story The young Albéniz, that includes the first commercial recording of the work within the framework of collaboration between the Museum of Music and Music Publishing Bellaterra.

4 €
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Albéniz, I., Granados, E. (2010)

Azulejos, obra finalitzada per Enrique Granados

Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya, Museu de la Música.

"Azulejos: a work by two composers, in three parts and conserved in a number of institutions and brought together once again after nearly 90 years. This is how we could summarise the long journey that this manuscript has travelled since the year of Albéniz's death and that his friend Enric Granados completed. The National Library of Catalonia and the Museu de la Música of Barcelona publish the urtext together with the facsimile of Azulejos with the purpose of making available the original and fully recuperated version of the work so that it may be disseminated, studied and interpreted..." Dolors Lamarca, director of the National Library of Catalonia.

"When Isaac Albéniz died in 1909, he had just begun work on a new project, the second suite of pieces for piano called Azulejos, possibly at the request of a French publisher as a result of the success that he had in that country with Suite Iberia. Although fate didn't allow Albéniz to finish even the first movement, Prélude, his close friend Enric Granados was given the opportunity to continue the manuscript, without any apparent rupture, fruit of his profound understanding of Albéniz's work and person..." Romà Escalas, director of the Museu de la Música.

20 €
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Escalas, R. (dir.). (2010)

Un sol món, músiques diverses. Guia del Museu de la Música de Barcelona

Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.

This guide provides an insight into the collection of musical instruments and documents that are exhibited at the Museu de la Música through a tour of music history, art and instruments. The guide describes the Museum's most important pieces and gives us an insight into our musical legacy and the uniqueness of our heritage and its cultural and artistic contributions. It also includes music and instruments from other places and cultures with an emphasis on the idea of travel and the diversity of world music heritage.

The guide is generously illustrated with photographs of the instruments and the musical documents as well as of the Museum's exhibitions. Catalan and Spanish editions

18 €
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Escalas, R. (dir.). (2007)

El Museu de la Música de Barcelona a la Casa Quadras. 1983-2001

Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.

A panorama of the activity that the Museu de la Música carried out in the fields of music, education and the heritage from 1983 to 2001 at Casa Quadras in Barcelona. This activity made the Museum a reference in its speciality in Spain and in Europe at large, allowing it to reach new publics and to make itself known in the city.
2007. 168 pp. Catalan and Spanish.  ISBN: 978-84-9850-001-1- Retail price: €12
Barcelona: Museu de la Música, Institute of Culture, Barcelona City Council

12 €
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(1998)

Música de tecla hispánica (1700-1850) [grabación sonora]

Barcelona: Euroconcert, Museu de la Música de Barcelona.

One of the lines of work which the Museu de la Música seeks to develop is the making of recordings with antique instruments, within the frame of an artistic and musicological project addressed to the study and recovery of our musical heritage. This is the first of these recordings. It is an artistic, documentary, pedagogic, suggestive disc... on which to hear instruments of the Museum's collection.

This CD features works by Catalan composers from the 18th and early 19th centuries (C. Baguer, R. Carnicer, N. Casanoves, J. Codina, J. Gallés, A. Soler), interpreted by the musicians M. Lluïsa Cortada, J. L. González Uriol, Albert Romaní and Jordi Reguant on original historical keyboard instruments of the Museu de la Música, such as the Zell harpsichord (year 1737), the Grabalos clavichord (18th c.), the Fernández fortepiano (year 1828) and the Slocker fortepiano (year 1831).

6 €
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