Esteban Peña Morell

Esteban Peña Morell (* 1894 in Santo Domingo , † 1938 in Barcelona ) was a Dominican composer.

Morell studied composition with Máximo Alfredo Sales . 1924-25 he attended the composition class of the Spaniard Pedro San Juan and played the bassoon in the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana, which he founded . On behalf of the Archdiocese of Havana, he arranged the cathedral's music archive and restored a number of damaged manuscripts. He copied many manuscripts for the magazine Carteles , which were then distributed in the Caribbean and South America.

In 1929 he returned to his homeland and founded a music school where he taught together with musicians such as Julio Alberto Hernández and Floripe Mieses . In 1930 he went to the USA and in 1933 to Spain. Here he composed arrangements for the Dominican baritone Eduardo Brito , volunteered in a Republican battalion and directed a military band in Catalonia.

Morell collected Dominican folklore and wrote about it the book Folko-música dominicana , the manuscript of which was destroyed in the print shop during the hurricane of San Zeno in 1930. He composed a. a. the Zarzuela Alma criolla , the symphonic poem Anacaona and the Sinfonía Bárbara .

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SURNAME	Peña Morell, Esteban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santo Domingo
DATE OF DEATH	1938
Place of death	Barcelona