El comercio de partituras en Barcelona entre 1792 y 1834: De Antonio Chueca a Francisco Bernareggi

The data presented in this article is an initial contribution to the study of musical score business in Barcelona between 1792 and 1834. It includes information about the places where printed and handwritten musical scores could be purchased as well as about the people involved in this business (booksellers, instrument makers, musicians, copyists and small business owners not specialised in music). It also gives specifics about the commercial system through which the purchases were made (direct sales, subscription, hire, exchange, batches, in notebooks or through music newspapers), the repertoire and, in some cases, the price of the musical score. The intensity of the musical score business, particularly from 1814, once the War of Independence had ended, is a clear sign of the high development of the activity and the musical culture of Barcelona, and demonstrates that Spain formed part of a European distribution network for musical scores