This series of letters offer an insight into Clavé’s creative process. We also offer the letters Clavé wrote while in Madrid in 1863, which constitutes a theory of Catalan choral music for the working class. This was the first time the choruses of workers performed in the Spanish capital and Clavé, in his last letter to his wife, concludes that through music, “Hemos catalanizado a todo Madrid.”
Clavé received letters from politicians and intellectuals such as Víctor Balaguer, Pi i Maragall, Baltasar Saldoni, Pep Ventura, Abdó Terradas, Rius i Taulet, among others.
This section offers an interpretation of Clavé's correspondence and archive, and compiles our scholarship on nineteenth-century Catalan popular music, politics, and social movements.
