Harold Gramatges

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Harold Gramatges

Harold Gramatges (born September 26, 1918 in Santiago de Cuba , † December 16, 2008 in Havana ) was a Cuban composer and composition teacher .

Gramatges was a student of Aaron Copland . He led a composition class at the Havana Conservatory and previously taught music aesthetics and history there. From 1961 to 1964 he was Cuban ambassador to France . He then headed the music department he founded at the Casa de las Américas cultural center in Havana.

He composed a symphony , a sinfonietta and other orchestral works, chamber music , a piece for prepared piano, a sonatina for harpsichord, guitar pieces, a piece for speaker and orchestra and songs .

In April 2003 Gramatges was among a group of prominent Cuban cultural worker, the one in the newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party , Granma criticizing the published call signed, which was addressed to friends of Cuba throughout the world and international human rights policy rejected by the Cuban government as anti-Cuba smear campaign : In the previous weeks, President Fidel Castro had sentenced 75 critical journalists and civil rights activists to long prison terms in a wave of arrests known as the " Black Spring " and had three young black Cubans executed after a bloodlessly unsuccessful attempt to hijack a ship.

Individual evidence

  1. Eds .: Miguel Ficher, Martha Furman Schleifer, John M. Furman, Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary
  2. Message from Havana for our friends far away (PDF; 7 kB) from: Friendship Society BRD - Cuba eV , accessed on June 27, 2011, Spanish version here
  3. Hijackers executed by ferry in Cuba In: Der Tagesspiegel of April 13, 2003, accessed on June 27, 2011

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