Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido
Claudio Jose Brindis de Salas Garrido | |
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Background information | |
Also known as | El Paganini Negro, El Rey de las Octavas |
Born | Havana, Cuba | 4 August 1852
Died | 1 June 1911 Buenos Aires, Argentina | (aged 58)
Occupation(s) | Concert violinist, Composer. |
Instrument(s) | Violin |
Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas Garrido (4 August 1852 – 1 June 1911) was a Cuban concert violinist. His father was the violinist and bandleader, Claudio Brindis de Salas. The son surpassed his father, and was a violinist of world renown.[1][2][3] He studied under his father, and then with maestros José Redondo and the Belgian José Van der Gutch (who lived in Havana). In 1863 he first performed in public, in Havana, with Van der Gutch as accompanist. Ignacio Cervantes also played at the same function.
In 1864 he toured with his father and his brother José del Rosario in the Cuban cities of
In 1875, he returned to the Americas, and was appointed director of the Conservatoire de Haiti. He played in
Claudio composed a few works, but he was primarily a concert performer, and to judge from critical notices, one of the best in the world at that time. Alejo Carpentier called him "the most extraordinary of the black musicians of the nineteenth century... an unprecedented case in the musical history of the continent".[5] The French government made him a member of the
The church,
References
- ^ Orovio, Helio 1981. Diccionario de la música cubana. La Habana. p60
- ^ Guillén, Nicolás 1935. Brindis de Salas: el rey de las octavas. La Habana.
- ^ Giro, Radamés 2007. Diccionario encyclopédico de la música en Cuba. vol 1, La Havana. p161
- ^ These tours were puntuated with returns and concerts in Cuba, mainly Havana.
- ^ Carpentier, Alejo 2001 [1945]. Music in Cuba. Minneapolis MN. p162
- ^ "La Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula". Retrieved 6 January 2019.