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1825
Pianist and composer Laureano Fuentes Matons was born.
03 de Julio de 1825
He was born in Santiago de Cuba in July 3th, 1825, and died in September 30th, 1898. He studied Latin and Philosophy in San Basilio el Magno Seminar, in Santiago de Cuba. Pupil of Juan ParÃs, Hierrezuelo and Casamitjana. He was a remarkable violinist since his teens, becoming fist violin in the Music Chapel of the Santiago de Cuba Cathedral by competiition. His wide works catalogue has been completely preserved. His compositions, based upon clasisism, raised from a romantic expression.
He composed religious and non-religious music, being the former the most remarkable. Among his religious works are masses, hymns, responsories, psalms, lessons, antiphons, invitatoriss, graduals, secuences, benedictus and other works, protruding among them his Stabut Mater. He also composed the symphonic poem América, several orchestra overtures, chamber music, numerous piano and violin works, dances and danzones, mazurkas, marches, the zarzuelas "Me lo ha dicho la partera", "El viejo enamorado", "Desgracia de un tenor and Dos máscaras", the opera Seila. He played several instruments. In 1893 he published a historical study: Las artes en Santiago de Cuba.
1880
Writer José Manuel Carbonell y Rivero was born
03 de Julio de 1880
He was born in AlquÃzar, Havana, in July 3rd, 1880 and died in March 20th, 1968. Son of Néstor Leonelo Carbonell. Just born he was taken to Tampa, United States of America. There he settled the newspaper: El Expedicionario (1896).
He fought in Cuban battlefields, being promoted to Lieutenant. During the earliest years of the Republic he was member of the Liberal Party. He ranked among the 1906 rebels in arms. In 1907 he was appointed Secretary of General Jurisprudence of Schools of Cuba. He graduated as Doctor in Public Law in the University of Havana (1914). In 1919 he settled the Nationalist Party with Manuel Márquez Sterling. Founder member and President of the National Academy orf Arts and Letters (1910) and director of its annals. He was also member of the Academy of Language, of the Academy of History, of the Ateneo de La Habana as well as of other Latin American institutions. He attended as delegate to several international lectures as offcial representative.
Collaborator in La Lucha, La Discusión, Heraldo de Cuba, La Nación, El FÃgaro, Azul y Rojo and Letras; he compiled in 18 volumes, an anthology of Cuban prose and poetry entitled: Evolución de la cultura cubana. He wrote under the pseudonyms: Tampa, Cacarajicara, Gerardo de Lavernier and René de Roban.
1956
Pianist Jorge Luis Prats was born.
03 de Julio de 1956
He was born in Camagüey in July 3rd, 1956. He began studying piano in the Fernández Vila Academy, with professoress Bárbara DÃaz Alea in 1963. In 1970 he registered in the National School of Arts (ENA), where he worked guided by Margot Rojas, until graduating, in 1976. His formation kept on under the guidance of Maestro Frank Fernández, and in 1977 the First Grand Prix on Piano, in the Margueritte Long-Jacques Thibaud Contest of ParÃs was conferred to him. Besides, in this important event the Award to Best Performer as well as the Ravel Award was also conferred to him, being praised by critics and audiences. In 1979 he won Gold Medal in the Katia Popova Musical Awarded Festival in Pleven, Bulgaria.
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