In 1989, the Government of Algeria submitted to the journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) what it termed a “somewhat difficult request.” It concerned the country’s most fabled and lauded composer, Mohamed Iguerbouchène. By then he had been dead for almost a quarter of a century. Born in […]
Author Archives: Peter Jordaan
Peter Jordaan is a writer and historian. Prior to publishing the biographical trilogy “A Secret Between Gentlemen,”> he edited for publication “The Dead Past,” the memoirs of the sinological scholar and rogue, Sir Edmund Backhouse.