Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (29 September 1879,

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– 24 October 1949, Havana) was a

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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

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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

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of Madrid and the

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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

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, 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

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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 {{NorthAm-composer-stub