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Clavé's Papers (1845-1874)

Programs, budgets, accounts, notebooks… A transcription of the composer's personal and professional collection of documents.

Accounts Notebook

Written by Josep Anselm Clavé

This is Josep Anselm Clavé's budget notebook for the years 1873-1874. The information is very detailed and allows the researcher some knowledge about the Choir Association economics as well as the financial difficulties Clavé encountered at the end of this life.

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  • We have respected the spelling and grammar for each transcription, without modification or modernization. Abbreviations are transcribed as follows: “pa: para”, etc.

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This document is Clavé’s personal account notebook for the years 1873 and 1874. It is a very interesting manuscript document related to the economics of the Cors de Clavé as well as Clavé’s personal and professional economics. There, he recorded, month by month, his income and his expenses. The greatest part of his income came from his work as governor of the province of Tarragona in 1873, when he earned approximately 3,777 reales a month. The second source of income was the sale of his scores, listed as “copias de partituras” (copies of scores) in the manuscript. He details copying his manuscripts and selling them to the choruses of workers of the Barceloneta, Sarrià and Tarragona.

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Papers / view all

Clavé's Papers (1845—1870). A transcription of the composer's personal and professional collection of documents.

Correspondence / view all

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.

Notes / view all

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.