Lauro Ayestarán Collection, 1830-1966
Span: 1830-1966
Bulk: 1850-1950
English
collection
30 ft.
112 boxes
The Lauro Ayestarán Collection reveals the life-time dedication of a distinguished musicologist and avid researcher who collected and analyzed the indigenous music of Uruguay as well as music of foreign origin performed in Uruguay. He was a talented teacher who encouraged study of the indigenous musics of the western hemisphere. He published several books and contributed numerous essays to dictionaries and encyclopedias. He also made over 4,000 field recordings of Uruguayan folk songs which are currently held in the Musicological Section of the Museum of National History in Montevideo.
Published and holograph manuscript scores.
Lauro Ayestarán Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Ayestarán, Lauro
Extensive collection of Uruguayan music.
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Music--Uruguay
Composers--Uruguay
Ayestarán, Lauro
ML31.A9
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003003
IHAS
110125
loc.natlib.scdb.200033655