Alejandro García Caturla

by Charles W. White

"Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906-1940) was a prominent figure in the development of Cuban national music in the first half of the twentieth century. His colorful life was tragically cut short by an assassin's bullet in his hometown of Remedios. Garcia Caturla's highly personal musical style, influenced by studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, combined traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and dance forms with influences from European and North American modernism. A close friend of writers and musicians such as Alejo Carpentier, Henry Cowell, and Nicolas Slonimsky, Garcia Caturla combined a fascinating career as musician and composer with that of a municipal judge." "This biography will be required reading for anyone studying the music of Cuba and will be of interest to musicians and non-musicians concerned with the history and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean."--BOOK JACKET.