National Documentation Centre for Music
The National Documentation Centre for Music was aan archival centre for South African music at the Human Sciences Research Council.
History
Initiated by P.J. Nienaber, who was the first curator followed later by J.P. Malan, the author of the South African Music Encyclopaedia, in his turn followed by cultural historian C.G. Henning, (author of Graaff-Reinet. A Cultural History 1786 - 1886) and ultimately by the musicologist Socrates Paxinos (1935-1998)[1].
Among the people who worked for the centre over the years were Marie-Louise Thomas, Josef du Preez, Gretchen Wepener and Surita Hauptfleisch.
The Centre was closed down in the mid 1980s and the material transferred to the National Archives in Pretoria.
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