La música en la familia Sierra-Pambley: los fondos musicales de su Fundación en León

Abstract

Created in León in 1887, the Sierra-Pambley Foundation established several schools inspired by the model of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (free institution of education) in Madrid. In the Sierra-Pambley Archive there are varied musical documents that belonged to different members of the family. The primary objective of this article is to present these materials and, at the same time, assign them to their various owners, particularly to Segundo Sierra-Pambley and his nephew, Francisco Fernández-Blanco, founder of the Foundation. Throughout our discussion, we review the music education of these both people, and their preferences in the musical field, where they show pronounced predilection for Italian opera. Also, our research shows that this peculiar family from León adopted some bourgeois fashions from nineteenth-century Madrid.