Amadeo Roldán

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Amadeo Roldán

Amadeo Roldán (June 12, 1900, in Paris - March 7, 1939, in Havana) was a Cuban composer and violinist. He studied in Europe and his works were performed in the concert series of the Pan-American Association of Composers founded by Henry Cowell. The fifth and sixth of his Rítmicas (1930) appear to be the first pieces in the Western classical music tradition scored for percussion alone. During the preceding decade, Roldán had written the first symphonic music to incorporate Afro-Cuban percussion instruments.[>] His best known work is the 1928 ballet La Rebambaramba, described by a critic of the era as "a multicolored musicorama...depicting an Afro-Cuban fiesta in a gorgeous display of Caribbean melorhythms, with the participation of a multifarious fauna of native percussion effects, including a polydental glissando on the jawbone of an ass."[>]

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