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The AMGM possesses a documentary archive which gathers  the history of the music school  founded by Enrique Granados in 1901 (Granados Academy), continued by his pupil Frank Marshall (Marshall Academy) and later by one of Frank Marshalls own pupils, Alicia de Larrocha. The criterion of cataloguing that has been followed is the following óne:

Enrique Granados fund  |   Frank Marshall fund   |  Alicia de Larrocha fund  | 

Academia Marshall fund  | 

Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha

Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha

Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha   Alicia de Larrocha


ENRIQUE GRANADOS FUND
During the 15 years in which the Academy was run by Enrique Granados, the school formed a whole generation of great  musicians which were outstanding both at national and international level: Robert Gerhard, Alexandre Vilalta, Frederic Longas, Conxita Badia, among others. As well as this, the Academy also became a very important center for cultural activities in the city of Barcelona, thanks to the concerts that were given there in which many of Granados¨own works were performed for the first time along with those of other composers of the period with whom he shared a great friendship. 

The documents that form this fund complete the documentary archives on the figure of Granados which can be found in other institutions ( The Museum of Music of Barcelona), especially through  concert programmes,  some letters, photographs and several original manuscripts such as the "Requiebros" or the "Intermezzo" of the Goyescas. Documents which bear testimony to his pedagogic facet have also remained, with manuscripts of conferences that he gave on the sonority and the use of the mechanism of the pedal, on which his method of teaching was based, and which was pioneer in Spain. .

FRANK MARSHALL FUND
Dating from the time that Frank Marshall was director of the Academy, there are many documents that link the figure of this maestro to numerous personalities from the musical and cultural world of our country and overseas. Correspondence with Manuel de Falla, Joaquin Turina, Emil von Sauer, Rodrigo, Casals, Millet, Rubinstein, Mompou, Cortot, and many others, convert this fund into a rich mosaic of information of a whole period. We can also find a great quantity of  concert programmes, many of which are linked to the Association of Musical Culture of which Marshall was the president in Barcelona; and press clippings of the musical activity of that century with a long list of names especially related to the world of the piano, but also to other interpretative areas such as Victoria de Los Angeles or the Ars Musicae ensemble. By his side, his wife Teresa Cabarrus, promoter of many cultural initiatives which arose through the Academy such as the poetry recitals or the chamber theater that completed the cultural life of the Academy. We also find an important number of original manuscripts as the Sevillian Symphony by Joaquin Turina, or some songs by Mompou, a cadence by Malats or the  Catalonia  Suite by Marshall himself.

ALICIA DE LARROCHA FUND
The Alicia de Larrocha fund is also important at historical level both for the concert programmes it contains, which date back to her debut in public,as well as for the letters, photographs or various biographical documentation. From this period we can highlight the original manuscript of the "Concerto Breve" by Xavier Montsalvatge which he dedicated to Alicia de Larrocha

Marshall Academy FUND
Frank Marshall has gone down in history as a disciple of Granados and an acknowledged pianist, but above all, as a great pedagogue, continuator of the method of teaching of his maestro and discoverer of great musical talents: as the brothers Carlos and Giocasta Corma, Mercedes Roldos, Rosa Sabater, Maria Vilardell, Alberto Attenelle, Rose M. Kucharsky, Carlota Garriga, among many others and very especially Alicia de Larrocha, who has been the  most  highly acclaimed pianist at all levels to come from this Academy.

The  Marshall  Academy Fund keeps registration books of pupils dating from 1920 up to the present day, plans of study and of examination, programmes of pupils´concerts, press cuttings, photographs and programmes of different events and concerts held at the Academy...

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Granados-Marshall Musical Association 2007