Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
About Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier y Valmontwas a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous “boom” period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life.
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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904-1980)
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904-1980)
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904-1980)