Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (29 September 1879 – 24 October 1949) was a Cuban

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and

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. Nin was the father of

Anaïs Nin Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell ( ; ; February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the d ...

Biography

He was son of the Catalan writer Joaquim 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-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher.Schola Cantorum The Schola Cantorum de Paris ( being ) is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera. History The Schol ...

(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 centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal aca ...

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. Married since 1902 with the Cuban singer Rosa Culmell, they were the parents of writer

, businessman Thorvald Nin, and composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell. Joaquím Nin appears as one of the characters in the novel ''

The Island of Eternal Love ''The Island of Eternal Love'' is a 2006 novel by Cuban author Daína Chaviano. The plot is a family saga that takes place along two parallel lines: one during our time and another that begins in the 1850s. The modern story revolves around th ...

'' (Riverhead, 2008), by Cuban writer

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Memory

In her memoirs and fiction, his daughter

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 Musicians from Havana Cuban people of Catalan descent Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Schola Cantorum de Paris Piano educators Spanish classical pianists Male classical pianists Spanish composers Spanish male composers Cuban classical pianists Cuban composers Cuban male composers Cuban people of French descent Cuban male musicians {{NorthAm-composer-stub