Manuel Saumell Robredo, was a Cuban composer known for his invention and development of genuinely creolized forms of music.
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Manuel Saumell Robredo, was a Cuban composer known for his invention and development of genuinely creolized forms of music. For this reason he gets the credit for being the first to cultivate Cuban musical nationalism, and is of similar standing to Glinka who initiated Russian musical nationalism with A Life for the Tsar at about the same time.
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1817 to 1870 · aged 53
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