Welcome to the Brazilian Music Collection of The University of Akron
Bierce Library. This collection focuses on the scores, manuscripts and
recordings of the works of classical Brazilian composers, from the 18th
to the 20th Centuries.
This collection was initiated by the many contributions made by
Brazilian composers and musicologists for the 1991 University of Akron
BrazilFest, researched and organized by
Professor James Ryon at The
University of Akron School of Music, with the generous assistance of
Maestro Jose Vieirã Brandéo at the Brazilian Conservatory in Rio
de Janeiro.
The collection is dedicated to the memory of Walter Burle Marx,
Brazilian composer/ conductor/pianist, whose entire opus was contributed
to the collection in 1997 by his daughters, Madalena Burle Marx and Leonora
Cohen.
