José Manuel Jiménez Berroa

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José Manuel Jiménez Berroa , called Lico (born December 7, 1855 in Trinidad , Cuba , † January 15, 1917 in Hamburg ) was a Cuban composer, pianist and music teacher.

Jiménez Berroa received his first instruction from his father, José Julián Jiménez (1833 - approx. 1890). He had already studied violin, piano and composition with Ferdinand David , Ignaz Moscheles and Ritter at the Leipzig Conservatory . In 1867 Jiménez Berroa came to Hamburg with his brother, the cellist Nicasio, where he studied piano and organ with Carl Armbrust. In 1869 he went to Leipzig, where he - like his father - studied at the local conservatory with Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Reinecke , Richter and Salomon Jadassohn .

In 1875 José Jiménez graduated with a diploma. He formed with his brother and his father, the Jiménez trio that is Trío de los Negros or Negro Trio called and with great success contemporary lounge music played. It was one of the first African-American ensembles in Europe. The trio undertook extensive and successful concert tours through all major European cities and their royal courts.

Jiménez applied as a student at the Conservatoire de Paris , where he continued his education under Ambroise Thomas and Antoine François Marmontel . In 1876 he got the diploma of the Conservatoire and won the 1st prize. This was followed by a two-year stay at Chenonceau Castle , and in 1879 he returned to Cuba. In September 1890 he settled in Hamburg as a concert pianist and as a piano and singing teacher. He worked at the Krüß-Färber Conservatory as head of the foreign classes and since 1892 as second director. He was married to the German Emma Mina Filter and they had three children, including daughters Marié and Andréa.

Compositions (selection)

  • Elegy in D major
  • Melody in E major
  • Polonaise for violin and piano in D major
  • Prelude and fugue on a theme by Bach in G minor
  • Legend for violin and piano in G minor
  • Murmuring breeze after Adolf Jensen in G flat major
  • Five songs
  • Valse Caprice in D flat major
  • Solitude in A major
  • Spanish Rhapsody in G minor for 2 pianos Jota Aragonesa
  • Cuban Rhapsody in E major
  • Asra, E minor, based on a text by Heinrich Heine
  • Estúdio sinfónico for orchestra

literature

  • Josephine Wright: "The Negro Trio" Jimenez in Europe . In: The Black Perspective in Music . Volume 9, No. 2 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 161-176.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Jansa: German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures . Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1911, p. 835.
personal data
SURNAME Jiménez Berroa, José Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES JiLico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Trinidad , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1917
Place of death Hamburg