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Ernesto Lecuona (Ernesto Lecuona Sixto Annahme Casado) was born on 7 August, 1896 in Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba, is a Cuban composer (1896–1963). Discover Ernesto Lecuona'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 68 years old?

Popular As Ernesto Lecuona Sixto Annahme Casado
Occupation soundtrack,composer,actor
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 7 August 1896
Birthday 7 August
Birthplace Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba
Date of death 29 November, 1963
Died Place Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Nationality Cuba

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1895

There are inconsistencies surrounding his birthdate, with some sources indicating the year 1895, and others still giving the day as August 6.

He started studying piano at the age of five, taught by his sister Ernestina Lecuona, a famed composer in her own right.

As a child prodigy, he composed his first song at the age of 11.

He later studied at the Peyrellade Conservatoire under Antonio Saavedra and Joaquín Nin.

Lecuona graduated from the National Conservatory of Havana with a gold medal for interpretation when he was 15 years old.

1896

Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 7, 1896 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires.

His over 600 compositions include songs and zarzuelas as well as pieces for piano and symphonic orchestra.

1916

He performed outside of Cuba at the Aeolian Hall (New York) in 1916.

1918

In 1918, he collaborated with Luis Casas Romero, Moisés Simons, Jaime Prats, Nilo Menéndez and Vicente Lanz in setting up a successful player piano music roll factory in Cuba producing Cuban music and also copies from masters made by QRS in the US.

The brand label was "Rollo Autógrafo".

1924

He first traveled to Spain in 1924 on a concert tour with violinist Marta de la Torre; his successful piano recitals in 1927 and 1928 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris coincided with a rise in interest in Cuban music.

His popularity brought him to concert halls in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Lima in South America, as well as Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Madrid, and London in Europe, followed by more engagements in New York.

1930

In the 1930s, he helped establish a popular band, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, which showcased some of his most successful pieces and was later taken over by Armando Oréfiche.

María la O, Lecuona's zarzuela, premiered in Havana on March 1, 1930.

He was a prolific composer of songs and music for stage and film.

He scored some of the film music for The Cuban Love Song, Always in My Heart, and One More Tomorrow.

The entire musical score of the film Carnival in Costa Rica was penned by Lecuona.

His works consisted of zarzuela, Afro-Cuban and Cuban rhythms, suites and many songs which are still famous.

They include "Siboney" ("Canto Siboney"), "Malagueña" and "The Breeze And I" ("Andalucía").

1942

In 1942, his hit, "Always in my Heart" ("Siempre en mi Corazón") was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song; however, it lost to "White Christmas".

Lecuona was a master of the symphonic form and conducted the Ernesto Lecuona Symphonic Orchestra, employing soloists including Cuban pianist and composer Carmelina Delfín.

1943

The Orchestra performed in the Cuban Liberation Day Concert at Carnegie Hall on October 10, 1943.

The concert included the world premiere of Lecuona's Black Rhapsody.

Lecuona gave help and the use of his name to the popular touring group, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, though he did not play as a member of the band.

He did sometimes play piano solos as the first item on the bill.

1950

In the 1950s, Lecuona recorded several LPs, including solo piano albums for RCA Victor.

1959

He moved to the United States after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and died in Spain in 1963.

Lecuona was born in Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba, Kingdom of Spain, to a Cuban mother and a Canarian father.

1960

In 1960, unhappy with Castro's new régime, Lecuona moved to Tampa, Florida and lived on West Orient Street in West Tampa with his relative, singer Esperanza Chediak.

Lecuona lived his final years in the US.

1963

While traveling in the Canary Islands he died of a heart attack on November 29, 1963, in the town of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he had gone to recuperate from a lung ailment.

He was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, but his will instructed that his remains be repatriated after the Cuban régime changes.

A great deal of Lecuona's music was first introduced to mass American audiences by Desi Arnaz, a fellow Cuban and Lucille Ball's spouse.

Lecuona's talent for composition has influenced the Latin American world in a way quite similar to George Gershwin in the United States, in his case raising Cuban music to classical status.

Ernesto and Ernestina's cousin Margarita Lecuona was another accomplished musician and composer.

She was the author of the song "Babalú", made popular in the Latin American world by Miguelito Valdés, and in the United States by Desi Arnaz.