Locatelli y Leclair en la nueva España. Dos sonatas para violín en la Catedral de México

Authors

  • Alejandro Correa Rodríguez

Abstract

The presence of 18th-century European and New Spanish instrumental music in the Mexican archives is relatively scant. Some examples still survive in various institutions, and scores that circulated in New Spain are described in a few inventories. Our identification of two violin sonatas, one by Locatelli and the other by Leclair, which are found in Mexico City Cathedral, not only helps to make known the reception and circulation of the work of these European composers in Mexico in the 18th century, but may also show us one of the aspects of musical practice in that institution through the repertoire used there, and shed light on the level of accomplishment reached by the New Spanish violinists of those times. This study allows a revision of the field of the violin in New Spain as well.

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2018-01-09

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