ANDRÉS STEINFORT MULSOW AND THE TRACES OF OBLIVION

Abstract

Andrés Steinfort Mulsow (1883-1949) was a Chilean composer, music theorist and pedagogue who taught at the National Conservatory of Music and Declamation. His name is difficult to find in books on Chilean music and his works are currently in absolute oblivion. The period in which he developed his career corresponds to a period of profound transformations in Chile, which had great repercussions in the musical field after the reform of the Conservatory in 1928. The scarce literature on Steinfort makes it very difficult to place him in that context. The present work intends to assume that task by establishing his institutional link with the Conservatory and gathering the existing data on his work as a composer, in order to try to explain the circumstances that led to his present oblivion.