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Joaquín Nin

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Joaquín Nin
Nin c. 1912
Born
Joaquín Nin y Castellanos

(1879-09-29)29 September 1879
Died24 October 1949(1949-10-24) (aged 70)
SpouseRosa Culmell
Children

Joaquín Nin y Castellanos[a] (29 September 1879 – 24 October 1949)[1] was a Cuban pianist and composer. Nin was the father of Anaïs Nin.

Biography

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He was son of the Catalan writer Joaquin Nin Tudó and Àngela Castellanos Perdomo, a Cuban from Camagüey.[2] Nin studied piano with Moritz Moszkowski and composition at the Schola Cantorum (where he taught from 1906 to 1908). He toured as a pianist and was known as a composer and arranger of popular Spanish folk music. Nin was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Madrid and the French Legion of Honor.[3]

Married since 1902 with the Cuban singer Rosa Culmell, they were the parents of writer Anaïs Nin, businessman Thorvald Nin, and composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell.

Joaquín Nin appears as one of the characters in the novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead, 2008), by Cuban writer Daína Chaviano.

Memory

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In her memoirs and fiction, his daughter Anaïs Nin often attempts to consider aspects of her own nature by recalling how her father treated her as a child. Her "unexpurgated" diary volume Incest: From a Journal of Love describes an incestuous relationship with him in adulthood. She described him as an egotistical Don Juan and would often imitate him by affecting a "Doña Juana" persona.

Notes

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  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Nin and the second or maternal family name is Castellanos.

References

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  1. ^ Latin American Classical Composers. A biographical dictionary. First edition. Edited by Miguel Ficher, Martha Furman Schleifer, and John M. Furman.
  2. ^ «Joaquim Nin i Castellanos». L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  3. ^ Taylor, Deems. "Dictionary of Musicians". Music Lovers' Encyclopedia. 4th ed. 1950. Important works for Violin and Piano: Seguida Española (Vieja Castilla, Murciana, Catalana, Andaluza), En el Jardin de Lindaraja.
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