Joaquim Nin i Castellanos

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Joaquim Nin i Castellanos

Joaquim Nin i Castellanos , Spanish also Joaquín Nin y Castellanos , (born September 29, 1879 in Havana ; † October 24, 1949 ibid) was a Cuban composer and classical pianist of Catalan origin who was in the tradition of the Catalan Pianist School .

life and work

Joaquim Nin was born in Havana in 1879 as the son of the Catalan military and Spanish-language writer Joaquim Nin i Tudó . He moved to Barcelona as a child. He studied there with Carles G. Vidiella and Felip Pedrell , with whom he was friends for a long time. At the age of almost twenty he performed works by Enric Morera , Joan Gay and Francesc Alió in public concerts . He took part in the Fifth Modernism Festival of Sitges in 1898 with a piano concert . In 1902 he went to piano studies with Moritz Moszkowski and composition studies with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.

From 1905 to 1908 he himself taught piano at the Paris Schola Cantorum . As a professor of piano literature at the New University of Brussels (1906-08), he gained an enormous reputation in the field of classical music. In 1911 he went to Havana, where he founded the Escola Nacional de Música and a concert company. However, he soon returned to Europe and settled again in Paris. From here he started numerous concert tours.

In his concert activities, Nin devoted himself mainly to early music with works by Jean-Philippe Rameau , Alessandro Scarlatti and Johann Sebastian Bach . Here he was particularly interested in the revival of French harpsichord music. In his programs he offered works by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer , Louis-Claude Daquin and Jean-François Dandrieu . He was also interested in Spanish-Catalan music, especially composers such as Antonio Soler , Isaac Albéniz , Josep Casanovas , Rafael Anglès and Jaume Ferrer .

He combined concert and composition work. He created very free musical forms. Of particular note are the ballet L'écharpe bleue (1937) and the pantomime drama L'autre (1913) in three acts. Also worth mentioning are some music articles such as Per l'art (German: For Art ), which he published in the Revista Musical Catalana in 1910 .

Honors

Nin was made an honorary professor by the Schola Cantorum de Paris (1908), the New University of Brussels (1909) and the Conservatori Nacional de l'Havana .

Familiar

Joaquim Nin was married to the Danish opera singer Rosa Culmell i Vaurigaud of French-Cuban origin. He was the father of the businessman Thorvald Nin-Culmell, the American composer and pianist Joaquim Nin-Culmell and the writer Anaïs Nin . In 1914, Joaquim Nin left his family.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  4. ↑ Montserrat Bergadà: Pedrell i els catalans pianistes a Paris . In: Recerca Musicològica . tape XI-XV , p. 243-257 (1991-1992).

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personal data
SURNAME Nin i Castellanos, Joaquim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nin y Castellanos, Joaquín (Spanish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban composer and classical pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1949
Place of death Havana