Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile

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Le fonds István Anhalt (mus 164) à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada : auto-construction du compositeur et rôle du
lieu dans son oeuvre

Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor

Firstly, Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor’s presents a much-needed update of Helmut Kallmann’s introduction to the István Anhalt Fonds conserved in Library and Archives Canada. Secondly, Chiasson-Taylor reflects on how composers’ legacies are auto-constructed, not only in the content of their work, but also through the manner in which document collections are selected and organized and how such constructions can be related to a sense of place. Anhalt spent over twenty years working as professor at the Faculty of Music of McGill University, making a significant contribution to art and culture in Montreal and this essay represents one of the first French-language texts on the composer and his work.