by Francesc Fontbona · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788473065313
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«Orfeó Català: quatre presidents, 1939-1998» is the historical essay by Francesc Fontbona and others, published by Portic in hardcover, in Catalan.
The book traces the history of the choral society Orfeó Català and of the Palau de la Música Catalana between 1939 and 1998, through the biographies of its four presidents, against the backdrop of Barcelona's cultural life.
This is the first edition, published in Barcelona.
For those interested in Barcelona's cultural history and the Catalan choral movement.
Francesc Fontbona de Vallescar is a Catalan art historian, writer, exhibition curator and specialist in Romanticism, Catalan Modernism and Noucentisme Arts. Fontbona is the author of many works of Catalan art history. Doctorate in Early modern period from the Universitat de Barcelona in 1987. He was director of Graphic section in National Library of Catalonia (1995-2013), and Chief executive-writer of art section in the Great Catalan Encyclopedia (1968–78). Francesc Fontbona is member of the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George, member of The Hispanic Society of America, member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and Board chair of the Institut Amatller d'Art Hispànic.
