minstrel: fwd: Stolen Music Manuscripts in the Canary Islands

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From: "Alvaro Torrente" <vhwm002 at sun.rhbnc.ac.uk>, on 3/10/98 6:31 PM:
To: Incognito_SMTP at InfoTech@MSCD[<musicology-all at mailbase.ac.uk>]
Cc: Incognito_SMTP at InfoTech@MSCD[<LAMC-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>], 
Incognito_SMTP at InfoTech@MSCD[<amslist at ucdavis.edu>], 
Incognito_SMTP at InfoTech@MSCD["Lothar Siemens" <gustavo at fulp.ulpgc.es>]

Dear list members,

It has recently been discovered that more than 400 music manuscripts have 
been stolen from the archive in Las Palmas Cathedral, (The Canary 
Islands, Spain). They include most of the works by resident 17th-century 
composers (generally unique originals) as well as a number of pieces by 
composers from the Iberian Peninsula.

The police and local authorities have been notified, and there is a fear 
that the robbers might try to sell the manuscripts in the international 
antiquarian market. Although measures will be taken to notify the 
relevant authorities, the president of the Fundacion Universitaria de Las 
Palmas, Dr. Lothar Siemens, has asked me to forward this information to 
the music academic community, in the hope that widespread knowledge of 
the event will prevent illegal trade.

Some of the composers (listed below) appear very rarely in archives other 
than Las Palmas. Therefore, in the event that any of their manuscripts is 
comes out in the market, it would be most likely that they are part of 
the stolen archive.

  Diego DURON (315 manuscripts: 40 Latin works and 275 vernacular 
  villancicos)
  Manuel de TAVARES (10 manuscripts)
  Francisco REDONDO (2 manuscripts)
  Miguel de YOLDI (16 manuscripts)
  Juan de FIGUEREDO BORGES (12 manuscripts)

Other missing manuscripts include works by Alonso Lobo, Francisco 
Guerrero, Carlos Patino, and Sebastian Duron, among others. If you get to 
know about any manuscript from these composers to be offered for sale, 
please get in contact with Dr. Lothar Siemens at the following address:

Fundacion Universitaria de Las Palmas
c/ Juan de Quesada, 30
E-35001-Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
SPAIN
Tel.: (+34 28) 45 80 20
Fax.: (+34 28) 45 80 09
E-mail: gustavo at fulp.ulpgc.es

I will forward more information when it will became available. In due
course, a complete inventory of the manuscripts will be available at the
following URL: 

http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/ILM/laspalmas.html

Many thanks for your attention. Please feel free to forward this
information to other lists. 

Lets hope at least that this will be the last time this happens.

With best wishes,

Alvaro Torrente
Research Fellow		| Tel.:	   (44) (0)1784 443947 (office)
Music Department	| 	   (44) (0)1784 741056 (home)
Royal Holloway		| Fax:     (44) (0)1784 439441
University of London	| Email:   a.torrente at rhbnc.ac.uk (preferred)
Egham, Surrey		| 	   vhwm002 at sun.rhbnc.ac.uk (this account)
TW20 0EX, UK		| WWW:	   http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/ILM/





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