| Contents |
Family background and early musical influences -- Havana: the university years -- Emergence of a new image: lawyer-composer -- Paris: studies abroad -- From Paris to Remedios and beyond -- Barcelona: Festivales Sinfónicos Ibero-Americanos -- Return to Paris -- Eminent and distinguished son of Remedios -- Interlude: transition from apprentice to local celebrity -- Sociedad de Música Contemporánea: Cowell and Slonimsky in Havana -- Bound to the interior -- Rebirth of Liturgia: yamba-O -- New standards for old forms -- Reality of life in Remedios -- Aftermath of Caturla's Orquesta de Conciertos de Caibarién -- Self-renewal: "To unite is the word of order" -- Culmination of a creative ideal: Manita en el suelo -- Ranchuelo: Caturla as defender of worker's rights -- Isolation and premonitions of death -- The final years : return to Remedios -- Caturla's legacy: a new perspective. |
| Abstract |
This is a biography of Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906-1940), including interviews with members of Caturla's family, photographs and maps of Cuba from Caturla's time, a bibliography and list of works, and a CD of music by Caturla never before heard outside Cuba. |
| Bibliography note | "Catalogue of compositions by Alejandro García Caturla": pages 229-236. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2002008914 |
| ISBN | 0810843811 (alk. paper) |
