Manuel Marino Miniño

Manuel Marino Miniño Marión Landais (born January 2, 1930 in Baní , † September 9, 1996 in Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican composer, conductor and music teacher.

As a child, Miniño took music lessons from María Blanca Lamarche and attended Gabriel del Orbe's violin class . He later studied with Roberto Caggiano and Manuel Simó . During his activity as the Dominican Republic's embassy secretary in Rome, he attended a course for counterpoint and music didactics at the Academia de Santa Cecilia with Alfredo de Ninno .

In 1958 Miniño won the first Premio Nacional with the Oración de la novia . In the following year he composed a requiem , which he dedicated to the Héroes y Mártires de Constanza, Maimón y Estero Hondo , a group of Dominican exiles who had launched an armed uprising against the dictator Rafael Trujillo on June 14, 1959 . After several symphonic works, the dramatic poem Sunhara, based on a text by Pompilio Brower, was premiered by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and the soloists Ivonne Haza and Rafael Sánchez Cestero in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1968 . For the dedication of the Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia church in Higuey in 1971, Miniño composed a mass .

In addition to his work as a composer, Miniño taught harmony, was director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and president of the Instituto Duartiano .

Works

Oración de la novia , 1958
Requiem , 1959
Sinfonía masónica , 1960
Concerto grosso y Concertante , 1960
Suite de danzas españolas , 1964
Presencia del ángel , cantata for soprano, tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra, 1964
Patria , symphonic suite, 1965
Sunhara for soprano, tenor, choir and orchestra, 1968
Misa , 1971

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personal data
SURNAME	Miniño, Manuel Marino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miniño Marión Landais, Manuel Marino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baní
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1996
Place of death	Santo Domingo