The Corunna-based Family Adalid Archive is a bit like Aladdin’s Cave, where anything and everything can be found. This mostly nineteenth-century collection of scores has been a fertile ground for musicological research for decades. Its forte, a substantial amount of chamber reductions of canonical pieces, has been brought to life by the effort of Galician musicologists such as Xoán M. Carreira, editor of Mundoclasico.com, Margarita Soto-Viso and, more recently, Carolina Queipo. These arrangements are witnesses to the Biedermeier period in which salon music-playing flourished in the world’s towns. The Adalid Archive has been luckier than other European ones, since it has been reasonably well-preserved in La Coruña, a small European town in which very little has happened in the last 150 years. This uneventful place has not been bombed or…
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