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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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 |