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arrival in Cuba at the end of the 18th century, the pianoforte (commonly called piano) rapidly became one of the favorite instruments among the Cuban population...

influenced the history of Cuban nationalist musical movements." In the hands of his successor, Ignacio Cervantes Kavanagh, the piano idiom related to the contradanza...

November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires. His over 600...

Cuban pianist and composer. He has been recognized as an important professor of classical piano in Cuba. César Pérez Sentenat began to study piano in...

Classical Music and he is a silver medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Rodriguez was born in Cárdenas, Cuba, and began piano...

education in Cuba. In 1961 and 1964, he was the Cuban Ambassador to France. His work tends to bridge the forms of contemporary classical and modern Cuban or Latin...

Music in Cuba. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816632299. Retrieved 11 November 2010. Ortega,Josefina. "Las Manos en la Piano" [Hands on the Piano:Cecilia...

Beethoven would improvise at the piano. Almost all of the composers who are described in music textbooks on classical music and whose works are widely...

studied piano with Zenaida Manfugás. Leon was one of an estimated 300,000 Cubans who left Cuba as a refugee on the so-called "Freedom Flights". In the spring...

writer Joaquin Nin Tudó and Àngela Castellanos Perdomo, a Cuban from Camagüey. Nin studied piano with Moritz Moszkowski and composition at the Schola Cantorum...

Iturrioz is a Cuban born American classical pianist. He is a noted performer, documentarian and a piano teacher. Antonio was born in Cuba in the town of...

The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods...

is a Cuban composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. He is a Member of Honour of the International Music Council. He is the grandson of Cuban composer...

Charanga is a traditional ensemble that plays Cuban dance music. They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily...

performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his working career outside the United States. Gottschalk was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to...

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero (February 15, 1832 – August 30, 1890) was a Cuban pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the posthumous works of American composer-pianist...

is a Cuban-American classical pianist known for his performances of works in the Romantic Repertoire. When Fidel Castro gained control of Cuba in 1959...

not included on the DVD version: Classical Baby 1 (June 4, 2005) Classical Baby 2 (June 5, 2005) Open, Music: "Piano Concerto No. 1" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...

asked him to play a classical piano piece. He played part of Chopin's “Fantasie Impromptu in C#mi.” I then asked him to improvise on it in a timba style. Within...

1918 – November 9, 2006) was a Cuban composer and teacher. A native of Camajuaní, Alea began her musical studies in Pinar del Río; later she matriculated...