Talk:Maria Galvany

Factual accuracy
See:
 * Granada Hoy (26 April 2009). "La diva universal de Pinos Puente"

The article seems very well researched, and points out that 1949 date of death and death place as Rio de Janiero resulted from confusion with a Brazilian singer of the same name. According to Granada Hoy, the "real" Maria Galvany was born on 8 June 1875 and died in Madrid on 3 August 1927. This article needs a lot of work, even without this new information. It has no inline citations, very vague sources, and an unencyclopedic style. Voceditenore (talk) 15:14, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Does anyone have access to Steane's article on Galvany in the Grove Dictionary of Opera (either print or via Grove music online). I'd like to know what he lists as his sources for the article. He says she died on 2 November 1944 in Rio de Janeiro which may be a typo/misprint. Opera News (Vol. 14 1949) lists it as 2 November 1949 in their section "Opera has lost...". Meanwhile, Kutsch/Riemens, Vol. 3. p. 321, lists it as 14 December 1949, Rio de Janeiro. But according to this article in the journal Opera Quarterly, all of them have probably confused her with another singer of a similar name and got it completely wrong. Note that there is an obituary for her in the 5 August 1927 issue of Madrid newspaper La Libertad ("Figuras Que pasan: Maria Galvany", p. 3) This adds extra weight to the Granada Hoy article which says she died in Madrid on 3 August 1927. Voceditenore (talk) 16:22, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have the printed Grove Opera. Steane's article is only 13 lines long and doesn't list any sources. I wonder if there's anything about her life in the first volume of The Record of Singing? --GuillaumeTell 16:43, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know, but given the R o S publication date (1977), I'm sure it repeats the error. People like Steane et al. were experts on voice and singing. They weren't historians or historiographers. I imagine they grabbed whatever (preferably English language) sources they could find and simply used them without question. I'm quite sure they didn't research her life in the archives of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. Frankly, I think the La Libertad obituary is pretty definitive. – Voceditenore (talk) 17:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)