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Alfredo Diez Nieto (25 October 1918 – 25 October 2021) was a Cuban composer, conductor and professor.
Alfredo Diez Nieto was born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, on 25 October 1918.[1] He enrolled at the Conservatorio Iranzo in Havana and studied composition, counterpoint, fugue, music history, music theory, orchestration, piano, and pedagogy with professors Rosario Iranzo, Jaime Prats, Juana Prendes, Amadeo Roldán, and Pedro Sanjuán.[2][3] He completed his education at the Juilliard School of Music in New York,[4] where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar, orchestral conducting with Fritz Mahler and piano with Edward Steuerman.[1][2]
Diez Nieto began teaching in 1934[5] and taught as professor of composition, counterpoint and fugue, harmony, music history, orchestration, and piano at the Instituto Musical Kohly, the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, the National Art School, and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.[2][3] Along with musicologist Odilio Urfé, in 1949, Diez Nieto founded the Musical Institute of Folkloric Research, an organization based upon preserving and disseminating information about the ethnomusicological history of Cuba.[4] Through this organization, the duo created the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos (Popular Concert Orchestra), which was integrated by independent musicians and other members of several popular music orchestras. Diez Nieto served as the orchestra's conductor. Urfé described Diez Nieto's work at the institute as significant to the development of Cuban music. The Musical Institute was later renamed (1963) as the Seminario de Música Popular (Seminary of Popular Music).[2] In 1959, he established the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory, in Marianao, Havana.[2][3]
The concerts offered in Havana by the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos at the Church of San Francisco de Paula during 1967, as well as in the Amadeo Roldán Theatre in 1972, are memorable.[3] In 1971, the Orquesta Popular was renamed the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos Gonzalo Roig (Gonzalo Roig Popular Concert Orchestra). Diez Nieto also conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Escuela Nacional de Música, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Camagüey, the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos, with which he interpreted pieces from Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ignacio Cervantes, Alejandro García Caturla, George Frederick Handel, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes and Antonio Vivaldi; and premiered his Organ Concerto, with Manuel Suárez as a soloist. He accompanied the sopranos Emelina López, Yolanda Hernández, Susy Oliva and Lucy Provedo; pianists Frank Emilio Flynn, Julio Hamel, Alberto Joya and Roberto Urbay; violinists Rafael Lay, Armando Ortega, and Celso Valdés Santandreu; flutists Richard Egües and Alfredo Portela; oboist María de los Ángeles Castellanos; guitarist Flores Chaviano; and clarinetist Rubén Noriega.[2]
Diez Nieto died on his 103rd birthday, on 25 October 2021.[4][6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Diez_Nieto
Alfredo Diez Nieto was born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, on 25 October 1918.[1] He enrolled at the Conservatorio Iranzo in Havana and studied composition, counterpoint, fugue, music history, music theory, orchestration, piano, and pedagogy with professors Rosario Iranzo, Jaime Prats, Juana Prendes, Amadeo Roldán, and Pedro Sanjuán.[2][3] He completed his education at the Juilliard School of Music in New York,[4] where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar, orchestral conducting with Fritz Mahler and piano with Edward Steuerman.[1][2]
Diez Nieto began teaching in 1934[5] and taught as professor of composition, counterpoint and fugue, harmony, music history, orchestration, and piano at the Instituto Musical Kohly, the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, the National Art School, and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.[2][3] Along with musicologist Odilio Urfé, in 1949, Diez Nieto founded the Musical Institute of Folkloric Research, an organization based upon preserving and disseminating information about the ethnomusicological history of Cuba.[4] Through this organization, the duo created the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos (Popular Concert Orchestra), which was integrated by independent musicians and other members of several popular music orchestras. Diez Nieto served as the orchestra's conductor. Urfé described Diez Nieto's work at the institute as significant to the development of Cuban music. The Musical Institute was later renamed (1963) as the Seminario de Música Popular (Seminary of Popular Music).[2] In 1959, he established the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory, in Marianao, Havana.[2][3]
The concerts offered in Havana by the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos at the Church of San Francisco de Paula during 1967, as well as in the Amadeo Roldán Theatre in 1972, are memorable.[3] In 1971, the Orquesta Popular was renamed the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos Gonzalo Roig (Gonzalo Roig Popular Concert Orchestra). Diez Nieto also conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Escuela Nacional de Música, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Camagüey, the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos, with which he interpreted pieces from Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ignacio Cervantes, Alejandro García Caturla, George Frederick Handel, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes and Antonio Vivaldi; and premiered his Organ Concerto, with Manuel Suárez as a soloist. He accompanied the sopranos Emelina López, Yolanda Hernández, Susy Oliva and Lucy Provedo; pianists Frank Emilio Flynn, Julio Hamel, Alberto Joya and Roberto Urbay; violinists Rafael Lay, Armando Ortega, and Celso Valdés Santandreu; flutists Richard Egües and Alfredo Portela; oboist María de los Ángeles Castellanos; guitarist Flores Chaviano; and clarinetist Rubén Noriega.[2]
Diez Nieto died on his 103rd birthday, on 25 October 2021.[4][6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Diez_Nieto
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