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A comprehensive list of Clavé's circle of known friends, acquaintances, relations, and political and professional associates, in alphabetical order.

Joan Tutau i Vergés

Figueres, 1829 – Figueres, 1893 Politician / Writer

Writer and politician. Tutau i Vergés formed part of Abdó Terrades’ government in Figueres in 1854 and went into exile between 1855 and 1858. He was part of Monturiol, Clavé and Sunyer i Capdevila’s democratic and republican federalist group. He held several political positions such as member of Figueres Parliament between 1871 and 1873, and Minister of Finance during the First Spanish Republic.

As an activist, he was Vice-President of the Junta Revolucionària de Barcelona in September 1868, and a promotor of cooperativism and unions. He was also part of the Ateneu Lliure de Catalunya and the Ateneu Barcelonès.

Tutau i Vergés was the printer of El Estado Catalán

 

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.