Adolfo Salazar en España. Primeras incursiones en la crítica musical: la Revista Musical Hispano-americana (1914-1918)

Abstract

The critic, musicologist, historian and composer Adolfo Salazar (Madrid, 1890-Mexico City, 1958) is one of the greatest exponents of musicology at international level. From his arrival as a political exile in Mexico in 1939, he committed himself fully to the nation's cultural life, bringing to fruition a fertile labor begun in Spain, and which yielded in all several thousand articles and a little over thirty books. This article relates his initial activity in Spain as a music critic and the first battles fought in defense of modem music at the side of his friend and teacher