Tabla de Contenidos: “…FitzGibbon -- Alfredo Casella's "Il deserto tentato" (1937) : an opera dedicated to Benito Mussolini / Justine Comtois -- A birthday present for Stalin : Shostakovich's "Song of the forests" (1949) / Marina Frolova-Walker -- "State music" in poland under the Stalinist Regime : Alfred Gradstein's cantata "A word about Stalin" (1951) / Andrzej Tuchowski -- Salazar's dictatorship and the paradoxes of state music : Luis de Freitas Branco's Ill-Fated "Solemn Overture 1640" (1939) / Manuel Deniz Silva -- "El concierto de la Paz" (1964) : three commissions to celebrate 25 years of Francoism / Igor Contreras Zubillaga -- "Conquistadores", Indians and Argentine generals : "Iubilum" op.51. a commission to Alberto Ginastera (1980) / Esteban Buch…”