Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes
Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes (3 April 1874, in Havana – 7 September 1944) was a Cuban composer, and an author of books on the history of Cuban folk music. He was an Officer of the French Legion of Honour. The outstanding habanera Tú, written when he was sixteen, was his best-known composition.
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Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes
(1926-10). " Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes ". Social X (11): 9. · Public domain
- Born
- 1874 · Havana.
- Died
- 1944 · Havana.
- Nationality
- Cuba · Spanish Empire
- Occupation
- composer · choreographer · songwriter
- Fields
- opera · zarzuela
- Education
- Instituto Cardenal Cisneros
- Languages
- Spanish
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Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes (3 April 1874, in Havana – 7 September 1944) was a Cuban composer, and an author of books on the history of Cuban folk music. He was an Officer of the French Legion of Honour. The outstanding habanera Tú, written when he was sixteen, was his best-known composition.
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They realized that he had systematically underestimated the contribution of the Africans in Cuba. He insisted, instead, on the supposed contribution of Cuba's original aboriginal population, which was subsequently disproved. • "It is a shame that a succession of errors should have spoilt the greatest work of a man who had carried his musicianship for almost half a century with rare dignity. Because in the end..Sanchez de Fuentes will remain, above all, a composer of habaneras and songs. In a hundred years his Cuban melodies will occupy a place of honor in our traditions.."
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Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes died in 1944 at Havana.
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Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes is recorded as composer, choreographer and songwriter.
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