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El Cimarrón (musical Work)
El Cimarron can be: *El Cimarrón (Henze), ''El Cimarrón'' (Henze), a 1970 musical composition by Hans Werner Henze *El Cimarrón (film), ''El Cimarrón'' (film), a 2007 film {{disambig es:Cimarrón (desambiguación) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Cimarrón (Henze)
(''The Runaway Slave'') is a scenic vocal composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze, written when the composer lived in Cuba in 1969–1970. It is subtitled ''Biographie des geflohenen Sklaven Esteban Montejo'' (Biography of the runaway slave Esteban Montejo), and the libretto by Hans Magnus Enzensberger is based on the oral autobiography related in 1963 to Miguel Barnet by Montejo, who was also a veteran of the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98). History In Cuba in the 19th century, Cimarrón was a term for a runaway slave. The former slave on which Henze's is based was Esteban Montejo, born in 1860; he told his story in an interview, at age 104, with the Cuban ethnologist Miguel Barnet, who made it a documentary for ethnobiographical, social and psychological studies. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who at the time lived in Cuba, took care of inviting Henze to Cuba; the first visit was from 21 March 1969 to 16 April. Henze met Barnet, who arranged meetings with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |