O Malho

Front page of O Malho first edition.

Heading used in all editions of O Malho.

O malho de ouro by Aurélio Cavalcanti, the first music published by the magazine.

Boliçosa by Carlos T. de Carvalho, published in 1904, in No.100, engraved by Luiz Thaddeu

History

O Malho was a weekly Brazilian comical and illustrated magazine published in Rio de Janeiro, but with national circulation from 1902 to 1952. The periodical was created by Luiz Bartolomeu de Souza e Silva and Crispim do Amaral (artistic director of the magazine). The Magazine was famous for publishing caricatures. Even some of O Malho's caricaturists published their own music on the magazine, like Augusto Rocha. Each number had a circulation of 35.000 to 45.000 copies.

The first sheet music published were printed by Fertin, Morand & Cia. Later O Malho published works engraved by Luiz Thaddeu, until 1911. The magazine received musical submissions of dance music for piano from all over the country until 1920, when it started to publish the international repertoire performed by two popular orchestras of Rio de Janeiro, Orchestra Andreozzi e Orchestra Pickmann (mostly american dance music and argentinian tango).

The Maestro B. Moll (possibly a pseudonym for Homero de Sá Barreto, according to Maria Alice Volpe) was the head of "Seção Musical", coordinating two musical contests in 1916 and 1919.

During World War I, the magazine published music related to the european countries.

Addresses

• Rua do Ouvidor, 125

Sources consulted

• LANA, Éric Vinícius de Aguiar. Partituras de O Malho e seu leitor-modelo. 2011. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação). Universidade Vale do Rio Verde, Betim, 2011

See also

• Wikipedia (Portuguese)
• Editions in Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa.
• Editions in Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira by BR-Rn

• For a edition number -month/year relation see the table made by Instituto Histórico Geográfico Brasileiro.

Publication Table

Unknown editions

Listed in Lana's dissertation