Cecilia Arizti
Cecilia Arizti | |
|---|---|
 Cecilia Arizti | |
| Born | October 28, 1856 |
| Died | June 30, 1930 Havana, Cuba |
| Musical career | |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Piano |
Cecilia Arizti Sobrino (28 October 1856 – 30 June 1930[1]) was a Cuban composer, pianist and music educator.
Biography[]
Cecilia Arizti was born in La Loma del Angel, Havana, the daughter of pianist and his wife Teresa Sobrino. Arizti studied music with her father and composition with and , and showed an early talent for composition.[2]
After completing her studies, Arizti performed as a concert pianist in Cuba and the United States. She became a professor at the Conservatory Peyrellade, and published a manual of piano technique.[3]
Works[]
Arizti's works are for piano and composed in Romantic style. Selected works include:
- Impromptu in F minor
- Vals lent
- Romanza
- Nocturn
- Caprici
- Reverie, Op. 16
- Chamber Trio for piano, violin and cello[3]
References[]
- ^ Cantero, Alicia Valdés; Valdés, Alicia (2005). Con música, textos y presencia de mujer (in Spanish). Ediciones Unión. p. 85. ISBN 978-959-209-577-9.
- ^ Carpentier, Alejo; Brennan, Timothy (2001). Music in Cuba. ISBN 9780816632299. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ortega,Josefina. "Las Manos en la Piano" [Hands on the Piano:Cecilia Arizti]. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
Further reading[]
- Segura, Isabel (1999). 7 passejades per l'Havana: la presència catalana i l'evolució de la ciutat els últims dos segles (in Catalan). Edicions La Campana. pp. 157–159. ISBN 978-84-88791-66-5.
- Barnet, Miguel (1990). Autógrafos cubanos (in Spanish). Ediciones Unión. pp. 71–76. ISBN 9789597064152.
- Baroncelli, Nilcéia Cleide da Silva (1987). Mulheres compositoras (in Portuguese). R. Kempf/Editores. p. 22. ISBN 978-85-270-0002-4.
- Giro, Radamés (2007). Diccionario enciclopédico de la música en Cuba (in Spanish). Letras Cubanas. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-959-10-1400-9.
- Molina, Antonio José (2004). Mujeres en la historia de Cuba (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-59388-038-5.
- Orovio, Helio (2004-03-12). Cuban Music from A to Z. Duke University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-8223-3212-1.
- Sanjurjo, Elena Pérez (1986). Historia de la música cubana (in Spanish). Moderna Poesía. pp. 130, 133, 376–379, 513–514.
- Orovio, Helio (1992). Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfico y técnico. La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas. pp. 40, 425.
- Schleifer, Martha Furman; Galván, Gary (2016-01-28). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8108-8871-5.
- Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-393-03487-5.
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