Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Zaldivar (1840–1908) was a
Cuba
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n classical pianist and music educator. He is best known as founder of the Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory of music in
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Puerto Príncipe into a musical family. His brothers Emilio, Eduardo (1846–1830) and Federico were also musicians. His father had been a French consul in Puerto Príncipe. Carlos studied music with Nicolás Ruiz Espadero in Cuba, and his father sent him to continue his studies in Paris with Camille Marie Stamaty and Pierre Maleden. He made his debut at the Salle Pleyel Salón Saint Germain and Salón Beethoven with Belgian flautist Delphin Allard, and afterward he conducted a career as a concert pianist in Europe.
Career
Peyrellade served as accompanist for the Círculo de la Unión Artística de París and replaced
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Life and career
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in New York as professor at the piano academy. In 1865 Peyrellade returned to Puerto Príncipe, where he played a number of concerts that helped pay for the redemption of slaves. He worked from 1866 to 1871 as professor for the Benemérita Popular Santa Cecilia, and eventually settled in Havana.
Before the
Cuban War of Independence
The Cuban War of Independence (), also known in Cuba as the Necessary War (), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Litt ...
, Dutch pianist Hubert de Blanck located in Havana, and went on to establish a Cuban conservatory of music in 1885. During the war, De Blanck was involved with the revolutionaries and was arrested and deported. Peyrellade took over his conservatory and went on to open and operate music schools in Havana and
Camagüey
Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.
It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by Sp ...
as the Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatories. Peyrellade also wrote several popular songs. He died in Havana in 1908.
A number of notable musicians graduated from the Peyrellade conservatories, including Jaime Prats,
Ernesto Lecuona
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Adolfo Fernández
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Biography
Adolfo Fernández was born in Havana, Cuba. He studied music at the Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade and Amadeo Roldán Conservatory with the teachers Isabel Martí an ...
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Cecilia Arizti
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Biography
Cecilia Arizti was born in La Loma del Angel, Havana, the daughter of pianist Fernando Arizti and his wife Teresa Sobrino. Ariz ...
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Rita Montaner
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Tania León
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Early years and education
She was born Tania Justina Leó ...