Musikaren argitaratzea Euskal Herrian

Abstract

In the centennial of the death of the musician, composer, pedagogue and publisher Jose Erbiti Segarra (1852-1900), this conference focuses on his latter facet, while revisiting the history of musical publishing in the Basque Country at the same time. Since the first printing of music carried out in 1494 by Guillen de Brocar in Pamplona, there is no abundance of data on engravers, publishers and printers in the country. The next known publishing of the works of a Basque musician, those by Gonzalo Martínez de Bizcargui, was undertaken in Burgos in 1511, and since then many works were published in Madrid, Paris, Leipzig, etc. Erbiti, who competed principally with Dotesio, from Bilbao, set up his own publishing house in Madrid in 1875, and then moved it to San Sebastián in 1891, where it still remains.