"Band of the supreme powers", slope of foreign musicians

Abstract

The following essay aims to draw in general the emergence and early years of the Band of the Supreme Powers. This band state character began as a mere marching band and evolved, hand-held domestic and foreign directors, to become an entity of professional nature in the early twentieth century. Its members and its history are the immediate background of the Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador, already formed in the twentieth century. A second component of this paper is immigration. In this sense, the life of foreign musicians who came to support the development of the band and music in El Salvador is examined.

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences No.7, 2016: 143-168