Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (29 September 1879,
Havana
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pianist
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and
composer. Nin was the father of
Anaïs Nin.
Biography
He was son of the Catalan writer Joaquin Nin Tudó and Àngela Castellanos Perdomo, a Cuban from Camagüey. Nin studied piano with
Moritz Moszkowski
Moritz Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent. 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
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acade ...
of Madrid and the
French Legion of Honor
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[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.]
He was the father of Thorvald Nin, composer
Joaquín Nin-Culmell
Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (5 September 190814 January 2004) was a Cuban-Spanish composer, internationally known concert pianist, and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley.
Early life
Joaquín Nin-Culmell was born ...
, and writer
Anaïs Nin with singer Rosa Culmell.
Joaquín Nin appears as one of the characters in the novel ''
The Island of Eternal Love'' (Riverhead, 2008), by Cuban writer
Daína Chaviano
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Memory
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.
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1879 births
1949 deaths
People from Havana
Cuban people of Catalan descent
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
Schola Cantorum de Paris faculty
Piano pedagogues
Spanish classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Spanish composers
Spanish male composers
Cuban classical pianists
Cuban composers
Male composers
Cuban people of French descent
Cuban male musicians
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