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Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín
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Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín(b Havana, 29 Sept 1879; d Havana,24 Oct 1949). Cuban pianist and composer, father of composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell and writer Anaïs Nin. He made his début as a pianist in Barcelona at the age of 12 and began touring in 1901. He frequently returned to Spain, where he performed in the Modernist festivals at Sitges between 1902 and 1905. At his Paris début in 1904, he presented works by Chambonnières, Couperin and Rameau, a repertory he was among the first to perform. He later edited two volumes of 18th-century keyboard music by Spanish composers Antonio Soler, Alberto Freixanet and Mateo Pérez de Albéniz (Paris, 1925–8). A participant in one of the 20th century's earliest performance practice debates, he challenged Landowska's advocacy of the harpsichord. Relatively late in his career he turned to composing, evincing a strong interest in popular Spanish materials. He taught at the New University of Brussels and the Schola Cantorum, Paris. His awards include the Cross of Isabel the Catholic (Spain, 1928) and induction into the Légion d'Honneur (France, 1929). In 1930 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Academia de S Fernando. He spent his last decade in Havana. WORKS(selective list)
CAROL A. HESS Nin-Culmell, Joaquín (María)(b Berlin, 5 Sept 1908). American composer and pianist of Cuban descent. Son of Joaquín Nin and singer Rosa Culmell, he began his musical studies in Barcelona with Granados student Conchita Badia and later studied at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Dukas. Cortot and Viñes were among his piano teachers. During the summers of 1930, 1932 and 1934 Nin-Culmell studied with de Falla and in 1936 gave the first performance of de Falla’s Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas. In 1939 he moved to the USA, where he continued to give premières of works by Spanish composers. His teaching appointments have included positions at Williams College (1940–50) and the University of California, Berkeley (1950–74). In 1962 he was named a corresponding member of the Real Academia de S Fernando. Nin-Culmell strives in his works to capture the spirit, rather than the letter, of Spanish folk music, often changing the rhythm, mode or melodic contour of traditional melodies. A number of his works, including the ballet El burlador de Sevilla and the opera La Celestina, draw upon Spanish literature. WORKS
BIBLIOGRAPHYG. Chase: The Music of Spain (New York, 2/1959) A. Woehl: ‘Nin-Culmell: “España me persigui”’, Clavier, xxvi/1 (1987), 20–27 CAROL A. HESS Nineteenth.See under Organ stop. Nini, Alessandro(b Fano, nr Pesaro, 1 Nov 1805; d Bergamo, 27 Dec 1880). Italian composer and teacher. His first teacher was Ripini, maestro di cappella of his native town. He was appointed maestro di cappella and organist at Montenovo, near Ancona, in 1826 and the following year at Ancona itself. In 1827 he entered the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, where he studied with Luigi Palmerini and Benedetto Donelli. At the end of 1830 he accepted the post of director of the school of singing at St Petersburg, where he stayed until 1837. He then returned to Italy and staged his first opera Ida della Torre (Venice, 1837), followed by another six, which were given at the leading houses in northern Italy. His most popular work was his second opera, La marescialla d'Ancre (1839, Padua). His only failure was Odalisa (1842, Milan); none of the operas, however, achieved lasting success, and in the 1840s Nini turned his attention to sacred music. In 1843 he was appointed maestro di cappella at Novara Cathedral and in 1847 moved to Bergamo, where he remained for the rest of his life. There he directed the cappella of S Maria Maggiore and the Istituto Musicale, retiring in 1877. He was an excellent contrapuntist and composer of church music, and as such was greatly appreciated by Rossini. His dramatic works, though well written and estimable, do not stand out from those of other minor composers of the time. He also wrote chamber music, cantatas and symphonies. WORKSoperas
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BIBLIOGRAPHYFétisB A. Cametti: ‘Les rossiniens d’Italie’, EMDC, I/ii (1921), 861–81 M. Girardi: ‘I compositori della Messa per Rossini’, Messa per Rossini: la storia, il testo, la musica, ed. M. Girardi and P. Petrobelli (Parma, 1988), 151–60 GIOVANNI CARLI BALLOLA/R Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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