Title: Archives and Music Documentation Centres Branch
Abstract: The Archives and Music Documentation Centres Branch presented two sessions during the Antwerp Conference. Elections took place at the beginning of the first session: Marie Cornaz (Belgium) has been elected Chair; Thomas Aigner (Austria), Vice-Chair; Clotilde Angleys (France), Secretary. The first session (Tuesday, 15 July) was entitled The Ways to Deal with Music Archives: Three Case Studies on Belgian Personalities. It examined three major Archives fonds linked with Belgian musicians from 19th and 20th centuries, kept by different types of institutions (National Library, Conservatory Library, and University Library) each of which proposed a different way of treatments. The aim was to show how each institution deals with the variety of supports and documents and which solution they propose for their description and access. The first paper: Les archives du compositeur belge Joseph Jongen conservees a la Bibliotheque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, was presented by Olivia Wahnon de Oliveira, Music librarian at the Conservatoire. Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) was one of the greatest and most talented Belgian composers from the first half of the 20th century, and was also a teacher and director of the Conservatoire until 1939. His archives, the Fonds Joseph Jongen, were given to the Library of the conservatory by his son. This collection is composed of almost 240 autograph manuscripts, 400 letters, personal journals, press clippings, concert programs, and scores from his personal library as well as some iconography. The mission of the Library is to inventory the complete collection, to catalogue it, and make it accessible to the public; but not necessarily to retain the whole of it: for example, unannotated copies won't be kept if other copies in better condition are already preserved in the main collection. The Library allows the collection to be consulted in its reading room, but does not make it available online. The library also organizes events around its collections, and may allow digital reproduction of the manuscripts for concert and recording projects, and encourages its students and professors to discover this music. But the major difficulty in the valorization of the works of Jongen in regards to publishing or diffusing these works, is that they are not yet in the public domain. In 2003, at the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Joseph Jongen, an ex-house exhibition, with a catalogue, was organized. In 2013, an in-house exhibition was organized and the librarian gave a conference presenting the correspondence conserved in the collection which brought to light much new information regarding the diffusion of Jongen's music during his lifetime. The second paper, Les archives de Celestin Deliege a l'Universite libre de Bruxelles, was prepared by Valerie Dufour who could not attend the Conference and her paper was ready by Marie Cornaz. Celestin Deliege (Liege 1922-Brussels 2010), was a musicologist, composer, and theorist of contemporary instrumental music. In 2007, he bequeathed his personal library of over 4,000 books on twentieth century music, to the Universite libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In January 2013, his widow Irene Deliege, a well-known specialist on the psychology of music, also bequeathed her husband's complete private archives to the Special Collections Department of the ULB Library. These archives contain documentation related to the preparation of Deliege's books, texts of his radio broadcasts, including his very famous interviews with Pierre Boulez recorded at the BBC studios in London in 1972, an important quantity of correspondence with some of the best-known composers of the second half of the twentieth century (including Henri Pousseur, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, and Hugues Dufourt) and some rare sound archives, such as a recording of the 1973 premiere of Vinko Globokar's Laboratorium. The Deliege donation contained a collection of documents that would be impossible to assemble today. …
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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