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Biography
Alberto Guerrero, pianist, teacher, and composer was born in La Serena, Chile, 6 Feb. 1886. He came to Canada in 1918, and died in 1959. See the Canadian Encyclopedia for a full biography.
Scope
Compositions, programs and reviews, photographs and family documents.
Size
2 boxes, .2 m.
Provenance
Donated by his daughter, Melisande Guerrero Irvine, 1998.
Associated
Portrait. By Melisande Guerrero, 1940. On permanent loan from Anthony Irvine.
In search of Alberto Guerrero / John Beckwith. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006.
Call Number. | Inventory |
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Box 1. Folder 1 | Sehnsucht / by Alfonso Leng. For piano. 1911. 1 p. of music. MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 2 | Tango. For piano. 1936-37. 3-7 p. of music ; publisher's proof with corrections in pencil. |
Box 1. Folder 2a | Tango. For piano. London: F. Harris, 1937 7 p. of music |
Box 1. Folder 3 | Tango. Arranged for orchestra by Adolf Schmid. 1 score (15 p.) MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 4 | Tango. Arranged for small orchestra by Adolf Schmid. London: F. Harris, 1937. 1 reduced score (1 l.) + 12 parts |
Box 1. Folder 5 | Southern seas : petite valse. For piano. 1937. “To my young friends”. 3 p. of music. MS pencil. |
Box 1. Folder 5a | Southern seas : petite valse. For piano. London: F. Harris, 1937 5 p. of music |
Box 1. Folder 6 | Danse. For violoncello and piano. 1 score (11 p.). MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 7 | Final. For piano. 9 p. of music. MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 8 | Allegro. For piano. 2 p. of music. MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 9 | Untitled sketch. For piano. 3 p. of music. MS pencil. |
Box 1. Folder 10 | Chants oubliés. For violoncello and piano. 1916. “A Michael Penha”. 1 score (7 p.) + 1 part. MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 11 | Minué. For string orchestra. 1 score (11 p.) MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 12 | Con moto. For piano. 1906. 1 p. of music. MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 13 | Tempo di vals. For piano. 1907. 3 p. of music. MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 14 | Andante. For piano. 1 p. of music. MS pencil. |
Box 1. Folder 15 | Untitled sketch. For piano. 1 p. of music. MS pencil. |
Box 1. Folder 16 | Quinteto. For piano and strings. 1910. 1 score (13 p.) MS ink. |
Box 1. Folder 17 | Programs and reviews. 1912-1940. * see below 1 file. |
Box 1. Folder 18 | Obituaries and other family documents. (Undated MS list of students with some addresses and telephone numbers. Obituary notices re Dr Daniel Garcia Guerrero. Letter from Lily Wilson, and [probably her] translation of Boyd Neel’s A G obituary. Portraits of A G, photographs of Myrtle Rose Guerrero and of Melisande Guerrero, and unidentified photos.) 1933-60. ** see below 2 files. |
Box 1. Folder 19 | “Remembering Alberto Guerrero” (Programs from Symposium held 25 October, 1990; correspondence from Guerrero students to the conference oganizers, William Aide and Sylvia Hunter.) 1990. 1 file. |
Box 1 Folder 20 | Private recording. (Sonata, K. 380 (L. 23), E major / Domenico Scarlatti (2:17) – Première valse oubliée / Franz Liszt (2:18) – Quejas ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor : Goyescas, no. 4 / Enrique Granados (4:10)) Piano. 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.) digital. Copied in 2003 from a 78 rpm disc. * |
1912 | |
June 14 | program, solo concert, Teatro Colon, Valparaiso |
July 27 | program, second solo concert, Teatro Colon, Valparaiso |
1913 | |
Feb 22 | program, lecture-concert, Teatro Colon, Valparaiso : lecture on Liszt by Eduardo García Guerrero, illustrations by Alberto G G |
early 1900s | |
n.d. | Reviews of lecture-concerts on Chopin, and on Schumann, Teatro Union Central, Santiago |
n.d. | Part of review, by Agustin Cannobbio, of solo concert including A G’s Vals triste and Chopin B minor Scherzo. |
1915 | |
May 14, 28, June 11, 25 | programs, four trio concerts, Teatro Dieciocho (Santiago?): Carvajal (vln), Penha (vlc), A G |
Sept 14 | program, orchestra concert, Teatro Setiembre, “Concierto de despedida” Santiago, A G soloist (Saint-Saëns 4th Concerto) |
n.d. | caricature, "El joven pianista Sr. García Guerrero” |
Oct 2 | Penha & A G, joint concert in sala Biografo Paris, La Paz |
Oct 12 | joint concert in Oruro, Bolivia; review mentions presence of "la señora Wilson" |
Oct 16 | Second concert in La Paz, including Breval sonata |
Oct 26 | joint concert, Cinema-Teatro, Arequipa, Peru |
Oct ? | reviews, concerts w Penha, Teatro Excelsior, Lima |
Dec 5 | joint concert in Conservatorio Nacional, Panama |
n.d | and in Teatro Nacional, San José, Costa Rica |
Dec. 19 | joint concert in Coloseo, ?? |
1916 | |
Jan 14 | program, joint concert, Conservatorio Nacional, Havana |
March 6 | program, Pickwick Club, ?? |
March 18 | program, Saturday Music Circle, Gibson Hodd, New Orleans |
March 22 | program, Gibson Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans |
Oct. 12 | Penha recital, A G accompanist, Aeolian Hall, New York (M. Courier review) |
Dec 14 | program, "New York début," Penha & A G, Aeolian Hall; including A G's Chants oubliés |
n.d. | Flyer, “Tourneé por las Repúblicas Americanas” (8 p.) with photos of A G and Penha, and excerpts from reviews |
1917 | |
Jan 20 | Philadelphia recital, with Abram Haitovitch(vln) |
1918 | |
Jan 6, 10, 13 | solo recitals, Teatro Municipal, Santiago |
Jan 12 | dinner menu, banquet in A G's honor, signed by "sus amigos y admiradores" |
May 7 | letter from Boris Hambourg in Toronto to A G outlining Conservatory position and plans for Trio |
June 27 | program, orchestra concert, Teatro municipal, Santiago, J. C.Vicuña cond, A G soloist (Tchaikovsky Concerto); program notes by "Lily Garcia Guerrero" (Señora G) |
Aug 28 | interview, Toronto World, conducted in Fr., on A G's arrival in Toronto w wife & "Melisanda," aged 9 mos |
n.d. | week of Hambourg Soirees musicales in King Edward Hotel |
Dec 2 | "début" in Massey Hall |
Dec 19 | Women's Musical Club |
1919 | |
Jan 22 | reviews, solo concert, London (Ont.) |
Feb 11, Mar 26, May 14 | Trio programs, Forester’s Hall, Toronto |
Mar 25 | Trio concert with Ruth Allen Young, London (Ont.) |
April 4 | recital by his student, Adele Doney, Conservatory of Music |
April 12, May 10 | recitals by his pupils at the Hambourg Conservatory |
May 29 | recital by Broadus Farmer students, Hambourg Conservatory |
Oct 7 | recital by and with his and Jan Hambourg students, Massey Hall |
Nov 6 | recital with Jan Hambourg, Morning Music Club, St. Patrick’s Hall, Ottawa |
Dec.8 | review in London Free Press of recital with baritone J. Campbell McInnes, including Liszt 12th Hungarian Rhapsody |
1920 | |
Jan 5 | Hambourg Trio, Aeolian Hall, New York, several reviews |
n.d. | Trio publicity brochure with New York press excerpts |
Jan 26 | Boris Hambourg and A G, Queen’s University Convocation Hall, Kingston |
April 18 | Toronto Sunday World review of pupils’ concert, Massey Hall |
Oct 11or 18 | Allen Theatre solo recitals |
Nov 23, Dec 14, Jan 4 | Hambourg Trio, Jenkins Art Galleries, Toronto |
Nov 29 | Hambourg Trio, Utica, NY |
1921 | |
April 26 | Piano recital “on Mme [Jeanne] Dusseau’s program” |
May 10 | ALS from Catherine Hambourg thanking him for treatment of her son Clement |
Oct 25 | program, trio concert, Sault Ste Marie (Ont.) |
Dec 6 | pupils’ recital, Massey Hall |
1922 | |
Jan 19 | solo recital, Kingston Art and Music Club |
Feb 4, Mar 4, Apr 1 | programs, Hambourg Trio |
1923 | |
April 7 | recital by his student Margaret Clemens, Conservatory Music Hall |
April 8 | Hart House Sunday Evening concert, two pianos (A G & Carlos Buhler) |
Jun 6 | program and review of concert by pupils Audrey Maunder and Edward Magee, Conservatory Music Hall, with A G on second piano for concertos |
Jul ? | concert by Audrey Maunder, child prodigy pupil, Massey Hall |
Dec 12 | clipping “A new sonata, by a correspondent” describing new directions in French music and mentioning a piano duet by Taglieferre [i.e. Tailleferre] performed by Buhler and A G “last winter” and an upcoming performance of the second Milhaud sonata by Fillion and A G. |
1924 | |
Mar 16 | Hart House Sunday Evening concert, solo |
Apr 2 | review, radio recital, CFCA Toronto: mentions forthcoming radio appearances in Montreal and New York |
Apr 5 | Philadelphia review of WGY broadcast “recently” including Liszt’s Venezia e Napoli |
Apr 22 | Toronto Star reports on radio recitals by A G, WEAF, New York: President Coolidge to give radio address, "Guerrero, Too." Mentions recitals in Utica and Schenectady |
Apr | recital by Adele Doney, Conservatory, with A G as second piano in Schumann Concerto |
May 3 | students’ recital, Conservatory |
May 28? | students’ recital, Massey Hall |
Oct 28 | program, New Symphony Orchestra Twilight Concert, 3rd season, Massey Hall: Schumann Concerto |
1925 | |
Jan 18 | program, Hart House Sunday Evening solo recital |
Mar 27 | program, recital by student Margaret Clemens |
early 1920s | |
n.d. | New photo of Margaret Clemens as Ontario music festival gold medalist |
n.d. | Review of pupils’ recital at Forester’s Hall |
n.d. | Two review of recital including Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, his Tango and Valse triste |
Oct. | Part of review of London ON recital |
May | Review of TCM students recital in Convocation Hall, including Edward Magee, with A G as second piano in Saint-Saens C minor concerto |
1926 | |
Mar 1 | program, Conservatory Trio (Blachford, Smith, A G) |
n.d. | Five Piano Ensemble flyer (4 p.) : Seitz, Kihl, Stewart, A G, Norah Drewett de Kresz; conductor MacMillan; management “The Musical Art Society of Canada, 194 Wellesley St”, i.e. Hambourg Conservatory |
1927 | |
Jan 22 | review by Hal Frank in Saturday Night of Conservatory Trio Beethoven program |
Nov 2 | review in Musical Courier of Five Piano concert in Massey Hall |
1931 | |
Jun,Jul | recitals and master classes, Edmonton, Saskatoon: brochure, news reports |
1932 | |
Jul 9 | news clipping about piano courses, Edmonton |
1939 | |
Mar 1 | Five Piano Ensemble program, Technical School auditorium, London (Ont.) |
1930s | |
n.d. | Review by Lawrence Mason in Globe of Mozart sonata program by Harold Sumberg and AG, and another review of the same program. |
n.d. | Review of concert in the Assembly Hall of the Collegiate Institute [Peterborough] by the Madrigal Singers directed by Dorothy Allan Park, assisted by AG and Leo Smith |
Apr | review, Conservatory String Quartet, with AG in Schuman Quintet |
1940 | |
Feb 14 | Five Piano Ensemble program, Technical School auditorium, London (Ont.) |
1941 | |
Aug | news photo re CNE recital of Five Piano team: Seitz, Malcolm, Godden, Kilburn, A G |
Box 1. Folder 18 | Obituaries and other family documents. (Undated MS list of students with some addresses and telephone numbers. Obituary notices re Dr Daniel Garcia Guerrero. Letter from Lily Wilson, and [probably her] translation of Boyd Neel’s A G obituary. Portraits of A G, photographs of Myrtle Rose Guerrero and of Melisande Guerrero, and unidentified photos.) 1933-60. 2 files. |
9 June 1933 | invoice, Rouart, Lerolle & Cie, Paris, for books & music supplied to A G |
30 Aug 1933 | brochure and covering letter addressed to Prof R Finch in Paris, evidently forwarded to A G, concerning Ochydactyl system of "mécanothérapie" of fingers, for pianists & others. |
Undated manuscript | list of students with some addresses and telephone numbers |
Dr Daniel García Guerrero | |
26 Dec 1933 | obit notices |
Jan 1934 | letter, black-edged paper, from "Lily" to A G, announcing death of "poor Daniel" on Christmas night. |
1934 | news notice (obit) re, "la mas grande figura de la medicina interna en Chile" |
1942 | brochure, Mélisande Guerrero, narrator on CBC Latin American programs, cond. Isidor (i.e. Paul) Scherman |
n.d. (late 1950s?) | clipping, social notice re Lilly Wilson, now living in Toronto |
Photographs | |
3 photos of Myrtle Rose (later Myrtle Rose Guerrero), mid-1930s? | |
copies of Margaret Sheppard's portraits of A G, mid-1940s | |
other portraits of A G | |
publicity photos of Mélisande Guerrero, early 1940s? | |
framed photo, unidentified | |
3 unidentified historic photos [in envelope] | |
faded group photo, n.d. about twenty young men; pencilled names, including “Garcia,” on the back, in confusing order |