Joaquín Nin
Joaquín Nin y CastellanosCastellanos (29 September 1879 – 24 October 1949) was a Cuban pianist and composer. Nin was the father of Anaïs Nin.
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Joaquín Nin
- Birth Name
- Joaquín Nin y Castellanos
- Born
- 29 September 1879
- Birthplace
- Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire
- Died
- 24 October 1949
- Place of death
- Havana, Republic of Cuba
- Spouse
- Rosa Culmell
- Full name
- Joaquín Nin Castellanos.
- Nationality
- Spain and Cuba.
- Occupation
- composer, music educator, pianist and musicologist.
- Education
- Schola Cantorum de Paris.
- Teachers
- Felip Pedrell, Carles Vidiella and Vincent d'Indy.
- Languages
- Catalan and Spanish.
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Joaquín Nin y CastellanosCastellanos (29 September 1879 – 24 October 1949) was a Cuban pianist and composer. Nin was the father of Anaïs Nin.
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Joaquín Nin studied at Schola Cantorum de Paris. Training under Felip Pedrell, Carles Vidiella and Vincent d'Indy is recorded. María Enma Botet Dubois and Leopold Magenti i Chelvi are recorded as having studied under Joaquín Nin. The recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish.
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• Birth Name — Joaquín Nin y Castellanos • Born — 29 September 1879 • Birthplace — Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire • Died — 24 October 1949 • Place of death — Havana, Republic of Cuba • Spouse — Rosa Culmell • Children — 3, including Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin-Culmell
Biography
Biography
He was son of the Catalan writer Joaquim Nin Tudó and Ángela Castellanos Perdomo, a Cuban from Camagüey. Nin studied piano with Moritz Moszkowski and composition at the Schola Cantorum (where he taught from 1906 to 1908). He toured as a pianist and was known as a composer and arranger of popular Spanish folk music. Nin was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Madrid and the French Legion of Honor. Married since 1902 with the Cuban singer Rosa Culmell, they were the parents of writer Anaïs Nin, businessman Thorvald Nin, and composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell. Joaquím Nin appears as one of the characters in the novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead, 2008) by Cuban writer Daína Chaviano.
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Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Joaquín Nin y Castellanos, Joaquin Nin and Joaquin Nin y Castellanos. His recorded languages were Catalan and Spanish. He was the child of Joaquim Nin i Tudó. He married Rosa Culmell Vaurigaud. 3 children are recorded: Anaïs Nin, Thorvald Nin Culmell and Joaquín Nin-Culmell.
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1879
Joaquín Nin born at Havana.
1949
Joaquín Nin died at Havana.
Portrayal in Anaïs Nin's writings
In her memoirs and fiction, his daughter Anaïs Nin often attempts to consider aspects of her own nature by recalling how her father treated her as a child. Her "unexpurgated" diary volume Incest: From a Journal of Love describes an incestuous relationship with him in adulthood. She described him as an egotistical Don Juan and would often imitate him by affecting a "Doña Juana" persona.
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- “Joaquín Nin”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- VIII: Joaquín Nin, The Spanish Song Companion, 2006
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.« Séances musicales consacrées aux musiciens français, italiens et allemands du siècle », in: L'Action française, Paris, 21 mai 1911, .
- 2.«Joaquim Nin i Castellanos». L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- 3.Taylor, Deems. "Dictionary of Musicians". Music Lovers' Encyclopedia. 4th ed. 1950.
- 4.Comœdia, Paris, 10 juin 1929, .
- 5.Le Ménestrel, Paris, 17 avril 1925, .
- 6.Ginette Raimbault, Luc Massardier et Patrick Ayoun, Questions d'inceste, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2005, .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Dictionnaire biographique des musiciens. Robert Laffont. 1995. 2-221-06787-8.
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Joaquín Nin studied at Schola Cantorum de Paris. He trained under Felip Pedrell, Carles Vidiella and Vincent d'Indy. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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