O Malho

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O malho de ouro by Aurélio Cavalcanti, the first music published by the magazine.

History

O Malho was a weekly Brazilian comical magazine published in Rio de Janeiro, but with national circulation from 1902 to 1952. The periodical was created by Crispim do Amaral.

The first sheet music published were printed by Fertin, Morand & Cia. Later O Malho publisehd works engraved by Luiz Thaddeu, until his death in 1914. The magazine received musical submissions of dance music for piano from all over the country until 1920, when started to publish the international repertoire played by two popular orchestras of Rio de Janeiro, Orchestra Andreozzi e Orchestra Pickmann (mostly american dance music and argentinian tango).

The Maestro B. Moll (possibly a pseudonym for Homero de Sá Barreto, according to Maria Alice Volpe was the head of "Seção Musical", cordinating two musical contests in 1916 and 1919.

During the World War I, the magazine published music related to the european countries.

Addresses

• Rua do Ouvidor, 125

Sources consulted

• LANA, Éric Vinícius de Aguiar. Partituras de O Malho e seu leitor-modelo. 2011. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação). Universidade Vale do Rio Verde, Betim, 2011

See also

• Wikipedia (Portuguese)
• Editions in Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa.
• Editions in Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira by BR-Rn

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• For a edition number -month/year relation see the table made by Instituto Histórico Geográfico Brasileiro.

Publication Table