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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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