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Alfredo Diez Nieto was born on 25 October, 1918 in Havana, Cuba, is a Cuban composer, conductor and professor (1918–2021). Discover Alfredo Diez Nieto's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?

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Occupation Composer Conductor Academic teacher
Age 102 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 25 October, 1918
Birthday 25 October
Birthplace Havana, Cuba
Date of death 23 October, 2021
Died Place Havana, Cuba
Nationality Cuba

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1918

Alfredo Diez Nieto (25 October 1918 – 23 October 2021) was a Cuban composer, conductor, and professor.

He taught composition at Instituto Musical Kohly, the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, the National Art School, and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.

He founded and conducted the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos.

Diez Nieto composed orchestral works including three symphonies and chamber music for various instruments, using and transforming elements from Cuban folk music.

Alfredo Diez Nieto was born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, on 25 October 1918.

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.

He completed his education at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar, orchestral conducting with Fritz Mahler and piano with Eduard Steuermann.

1934

Diez Nieto began teaching in 1934; he taught 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.

1943

Among his best-known works are the series of Estampas (Prints) for piano, Symphony No. 1 (1943), Violin Sonata, Guitar Sonata, and En memoria de mi esposa Lillian (In memory of my wife Lillian, 2010).

Other important works include his Piano Sonata, Sudor y látigo (Sweat and Whip), and the Quintet for String Orchestra.

1949

In 1949 Diez Nieto, along with musicologist Odilio Urfé, founded the Musical Institute of Folkloric Research, an organization dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the ethnomusicological history of Cuba.

Through this organization, the duo formed the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos (Popular Concert Orchestra), which was formed by freelance 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.

1959

In 1959, Diez Nieto established the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory in Marianao, Havana.

1963

The Musical Institute was later renamed in 1963 as the Seminario de Música Popular (Seminary of Popular Music).

1965

During the years 1965 and 1966, he led the band of the general staff of the Cuban Revolutionary Army.

1967

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, were well regarded.

1969

He never directly quotes from folk music, but creates original music which recalls it; such as in his pieces Los Diablitos (The Little Devils, 1969) based on an Afro-Cuban Abakuá dance, and Yo te pedí un aguinaldo ("I asked you for a Christmas bonus"; "aguinaldo" also refers to a flowering plant common in Cuba) for voice and orchestra.

His compositions have been performed in Spain, Russia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.

1971

In 1971, the Orquesta Popular was renamed the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos Gonzalo Roig.

Diez Nieto performed as a pianist and also conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Escuela Nacional de Música and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Camagüey.

He conducted works by 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 also accompanied soloists such as 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.

Diez Nieto died in Havana of a heart attack on 23 October 2021, shortly before his 103rd birthday.

At the time of his death, he was the oldest active composer in Cuba.

Diez Nieto's compositions employ elements typical of Cuban folk music.

2004

Nieto received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to teaching and developing the music of Cuba, such as a honorary doctorate from the Universidad de las Artes of the Instituto Superior de Arte, the Premio Nacional de Música (National Music Award) (2004), Premio Nacional de Enseñanza Artística (National Award of Artistic Teaching) (2005), the Order of Félix Varela, first degree (2020) and the Distinción Abelardo Estorino en Teatro (Abelardo Estorino Distinction in Theater, 2020) from the Ministry of Culture.