O Maestro Pompeu e a História Cultural da Música no Sul de Minas Gerais: fontes, compositores, músicos e professores entre os séculos XVIII e XX

Abstract

The Brazilian musical culture and its various interfaces with education and the cultural practices of organizing musicological collections in Minas Gerais are the subjects of this study framed by the life and work of the Maestro José Luiz Pompeu da Silva. From the approaches of Cultural History, notably those which underpin the biographical studies, we have analyzed the production of important musical works and the diversified educational performance of Maestro Pompeu at South of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between the 18th and the 20th Century. Contrary to the current vision that our cultural production is inferior to abroad productions, this study presents a series of results about resulting practices from personal performances in the music field, highlighting an enormous cultural wealth. Breaking down social taboos, prejudices and highlighting the quality of Maestro Pompeu's work, this study precisely demonstrates that in a small town in the interior of South of Minas Gerais state, Campanha city, conceals a huge collection of music and education, located in the Center of the Cultural Memory of the South of Minas (CEMEC- SM) and the archive historic in the Inconfidência Museum (MIOP).