These letters Clavé sent from Montcada and Madrid contain information regarding various political schemes and Prim’s assassination (for which Clavé was arrested). He also mentions the impossibility for him to go to a Freemason banquet: this information is highly relevant since no critic has been able to trace Clavé’s relationship to freemason thought.
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.