Habanera (feminine form of the Spanish word ''habanero'', "from
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.
Music
*Habanera or
contradanza
''Contradanza'' (also called ''contradanza criolla'', ''danza'', ''danza criolla'', or ''habanera'') is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th cen ...
, a style of Cuban popular dance music of the 19th century
*''Habanera'', a work for violin and piano by
Pablo de Sarasate
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (; 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish violinist, composer and Conducting, conductor of the Romantic music, Romantic period. His best known work ...
, part of the ''
Spanish Dances
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*''Habanera'', a work for piano of 1885 by
Emmanuel Chabrier
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (; 18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and pianist. His Bourgeoisie, bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked ...
, arranged for orchestra by him in 1888
*''Habanera'', composition for flute or violin & piano by
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...
*''Habanera'', composition for cello and piano by
Ernesto Halffter
Ernesto Halffter Escriche (16 January 19055 July 1989) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter and part of the ''Grupo de los Ocho'' (), which formed a sub-set of the ''Generation of '27''.
Early years
Ernes ...
*''Habanera'', guitar composition by
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza (5 January 1903 – 5 December 1982) was a Spanish composer. Born in Burgos, he was brother of Regino Sainz de la Maza. Composing for the classical guitar, some of his notable works include the suite '' Platero y yo'' for ...
*''Habanera'', guitar composition by
Xavier Montsalvatge
Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols (; 11 March 1912 – 7 May 2002) was a Spanish composer and music critic. He was one of the most influential figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the 20th century.
Biography
Life
Montsalvatge was bor ...
* "Habanera" (aria), popular name of an aria "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Bizet's opera ''Carmen''
* ''Habanera'' (John Harle album), a 1987 album by the English classical saxophonist John Harle
*''Habanera'', a 2000 album by
Celia Cruz
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of , earning the nickna ...
*''Habanera'', classical album by
Elīna Garanča
Elīna Garanča (born 16 September 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. She began to study singing in her hometown of Riga in 1996 and continued her studies in Vienna and in the United States. By 1999 she had won first place in the Mirjam Helin Sing ...
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Charanga Habanera
La Charanga Habanera is a timba ensemble from Havana directed by David Calzado. The band has been nominated for awards including the Latin Grammy in 2003 for the album ''Live in the U.S.A''. In 2005 Charanga Habanera was nominated for " Orgullo ...
, timba group
*''La Habanera'', song on album One Second by pop group
Yello
Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979. For most of the band's history, Yello has been a duo consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank; founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983.
Their sound is often charac ...
Soritena habanera
''Soritena'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species, ''Soritena habanera'', is found on Cuba. Both the genus and species were first described by William Schaus
William Schaus (January 11, 1858, in New York City – ...
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Volvarina habanera
''Volvarina habanera'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Cuba in the Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Oc ...
'', sea snail
Other
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Havaner lebn
''Havaner lebn'' (, 'Havana Life'), known in Spanish as ''Vida Habanera'', was a Yiddish and Spanish language newspaper published from Havana, Cuba 1932–1960. The first issue came out on November 11, 1932. It was the first commercial Jewish newsp ...
'' or ''Vida Habanera'', a Cuban-Yiddish newspaper