Alejandro García Caturla
Subtitle: a Cuban composer in the twentieth century
By: Charles W. White
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: García Caturla, Alejandro, -- 1906-1940; Composers -- Cuba -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906-1940) was a prominent figure in the development of Cuban national music in the first half of the twentieth century. His colorful life was tragically cut short by an assassin's bullet in his hometown of Remedios. Garcia Caturla's highly personal musical style, influenced by studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, combined traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and dance forms with influences from European and North American modernism.

A close friend of writers and musicians such as Alejo Carpentier, Henry Cowell, and Nicolas Slonimsky, Garcia Caturla combined a fascinating career as musician and composer with that of a municipal judge." "This biography will be required reading for anyone studying the music of Cuba and will be of interest to musicians and non-musicians concerned with the history and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Catalogue of compositions by Alejandro García Caturla": p. 229-236

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and indexes

Compact disc accompanying this book is in Music Listening Center
Table of contents: title: Family background and early musical influences; title: Havana : the university years; title: Emergence of a new image : lawyer-composer; title: Paris : studies abroad; title: From Paris to Remedios and beyond; title: Barcelona : Festivales Sinfónicos Ibero-Americanos; title: Return to Paris; title: Eminent and distinguished son of Remedios; title: Interlude : transition from apprentice to local celebrity; title: Sociedad de Música Contemporánea : Cowell and Slonimsky in Havana; title: Bound to the interior; title: Rebirth of Liturgia : yamba-O; title: New standards for old forms; title: Reality of life in Remedios; title: Aftermath of Caturla's Orquesta de Conciertos de Caibarién; title: Self-renewal : "To unite is the word of order"; title: Culmination of a creative ideal : Manita en el suelo; title: Ranchuelo : Caturla as defender of worker's rights; title: Isolation and premonitions of death; title: The final years : return to Remedios; title: Caturla's legacy : a new perspective