From 1944 to 1958, the year of his death, the Romanian musicologist Constantin Brăiloiu (1893-1958) gathered at the MEG an important sound archive collection of more than 3,000 recordings consisting of his own fieldwork documents, mainly of Romanian origin, and others coming from exchanges with his colleagues and with specialized institutions around the world, such as the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. This collection is in addition to an older series of wax cylinders that were already in the MEG.

C. Brăiloiu has devoted its work to the collection, archiving and dissemination of ethnomusicological sound documents. Between 1951 and 1958, he edited the World Collection of Recorded Folk Music, published in the form of 40 78-rpm discs. This was the very first anthology of world music to be commercialized.

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