Back to search

Poster for the XIV Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music and the III Congress of the International Society of Musicology

Date
1936
Archive
Documentation Center of the Catalan Orfeó
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT CEDOC 2.3.2 1936-04-18
Link to the online document
Description

Just three months before the start of the Civil War, the III International Congress of Musicology and the XIV International Festival of Contemporary Music were held simultaneously in Barcelona, ​​two musical events that were exponents of the unstoppable process of normalization and Europeanization in which the city’s musical activity and culture had been immersed since the beginning of the 20th century.
Some of the activities took place at the Palau de la Música Catalana, and Orfeó also took part. Of particular note at that congress was the world premiere at the Palau del Concert for violin by Alban Berg on April 19, 1936.