José Julián Jiménez

José Julián Jiménez (born 9 January 1823, died 1880) was a Cuban violinist and composer.

Early years

José Julián Jiménez was born in Trinidad, Las Villas, Cuba, the son of orchestra conductor Francisco Nicasio Jiménez.[1] He studied with Luigi Arditi in Havana,[2] and continued his studies in harmony, violin and piano in Leipzig.

Career

Jiménez was born into a musical family and was brother-in-law to composer Catalina Berroa and father of cellist Nicasio and pianist Lico Jiménez.[3][4] His daughters Inés and Arcadia Jiménez were singers.[5]

Jiménez played violin in the Gewandhause Orchestra. With his sons, he formed one of the first all black ensembles, billed as "Das Negertrio",[6] and successfully toured in Europe, the Americas and in Cuba, both as a soloist and with the ensemble, playing mostly 19th-century Romantic compositions.[7] He founded a Cuban dance band in 1849, and composed primarily danzas and guarachas. He died in Havana.[8]

References

  1. "A Liszt of Cuban Ebony". Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  2. Carpentier, Alejo (2001). Music in Cuba (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. Helio Orovio Cuban Music from A to Z - Page 116 2004 "Jiménez , José Julián ... As an adolescent, José Julián Jiménez traveled to Leipzig, Germany, where he studied piano, violin, and harmony. He was a violinist with the Gewandhause Orchestra in that city. As a soloist and also with his sons, he gave concerts in Cuba"
  4. Lopes, Nei (2004). Enciclopédia brasileira da diáspora africana. Page 360 "JIMÉNEZ. Família de ilustres músicos cubanos naturais de Trinidad, entre os quais destacam-se: José Julián Jiménez (1823-80), falecido em Havana, pianista, violinista, compositor, chefe de orquestra e autor de numerosas danzas .."
  5. Sanjurjo, Elena Pérez (1986). Historia de la música cubana.
  6. Hamilton, Ruth Simms (2007). Routes of passage: rethinking the African diaspora: Volume 1, Part 1.
  7. Wright, Josephine (1981). Das Negertrio Jimenez in Europe. The Black Perspective in Music, Foundation for Research in the Afro-American Creative Arts. JSTOR 1214195.
  8. Orovio, Helio (2004). Cuban music from A to Z (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 27 January 2011.


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