Last updated: April 1, 2006
Composers in our collection
Personal collections
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LAMC Collections
The library of the Latin American Music Center is the most complete collection of Latin American art music in the world. The collection includes rare manuscripts and published scores, records and books, anthologies of colonial music, photographs of musicians, periodicals, microfilms and miscellaneous documents. The entire holdings of the LAMC can be searched in the Indiana University Online Catalog (IUCAT).
The following personal collections have been bequeathed to the Latin American Music Center, and complement the vast holdings and resources of the Indiana University Music Library:
- In 1992 Guillermo Espinosa's lifetime collection was bequeathed to Indiana University. Espinosa was the founder and director of the Inter-American music festivals that took place from late 1950s up to 1982 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington D.C.
- The Antonio Ramírez Collection consists of twenty-two works for varied ensembles, donated by the Puerto Rican composer. The collection contains the original manuscripts and all the parts necessary for performance.
- The Carlos Teppa Collection, also donated by the composer, is a collection of ninety-three scores for diverse combinations of instruments, from solo to large orchestra.
- In August, 1993 the LAMC received a donation from Guatemalan composer and pianist Carlos Armando Colón Quintana. The donation consists of a collection of scores by Central American composers Roque Cordero, Igor de Gandarias, Manuel Herrarte, Joaquín Marroquín, Jose Porfirio González Alcantara, and Enrique Solares. Carlos Colón Quintana (b.1966, El Salvador), moved to Guatemala in 1981. He studied with Jorge Sarmientos at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica y Arte Escénico, and continued his studies of composition and piano in the United States with Edgar Cajas and Richard Shadinger, among others. In November of 1993, he completed a research project for his Master Thesis entitled Solo Piano Music by Representative Central American Composers. Several of the pieces discussed in the monograph are part of the collection.
- In 1994 the LAMC received the complete collection of scores of Argentinian composer César Franchisena. Born in 1923, he studied composition in Córdoba with Teodoro Fuchs. Franchisena began teaching composition at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in 1957, first as a faculty member and later as head of the composition department. He founded and directed the Córdoba chapter of the Agrupación Nueva Música--an association of composers and performers devoted to the study and performance of international contemporary music.
- Also in 1994, Ms. Inés Helena López de la Rosa donated
to the LAMC the complete collection of his father's scores: Horacio
López de la Rosa. Argentinean composer Horacio López
de la Rosa was born in Buenos Aires, October 26, 1933, and died in the
that city on September 7, 1986. He studied with Orestes Castronuovo
and Julian Bautista, among others. He was a founder member of the Asociación
de Jóvenes Compositores, which he directed for three consecutive
terms. He taught at the Escuela Nacional de Música Juan Pedro
Esnaola, the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, the Conservatorio
Provincial Juan José Castro, and the Conservatorio Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo. In 1969, while studying
in Spain, he won the Third International Composition Contest for Organ
Santa Teresa de Ávila with his work Seis piezas
para órgano, Op. 33. Later, he received awards from the
Argentinean society of authors and composers (SADAIC) and Fondo Nacional
de las Artes, among others. A listing of the scores in the collection
appeared in LAMúsiCa,
Vol. 2, No. 1.
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