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Ernesto Lecuona

1895 - 1963

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Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (Spanish pronunciation: [eɾˈnesto leˈkwona]; August 7, 1896 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires. His over 600 compositions include songs and zarzuelas as well as pieces for piano and symphonic orchestra. In the 1930s, he helped establish a popular band, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, which showcased some of his most successful pieces and was later taken over by Armando Oréfiche. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernesto Lecuona has received more than 257,140 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ernesto Lecuona is the 578th most popular composer (down from 551st in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Cuba and the 2nd most popular Cuban Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ernesto Lecuona ranks 578 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Adam Hiller, Maddalena Casulana, Tielman Susato, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Jehan Alain, and Rikard Nordraak. After him are Robert Fuchs, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Ernest Guiraud, Alexandre Desplat, Orlando Gibbons, and Diego Ortiz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ernesto Lecuona ranks 107. Before him are Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Erich Abraham, Ernst Kantorowicz, Martin Luther, and Isamu Chō. After him are Liaquat Ali Khan, Lucian Blaga, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Bertil Lindblad, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, and Walter Gieseking. Among people deceased in 1963, Ernesto Lecuona ranks 69. Before him are Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Gustaf Gründgens, Fazlollah Zahedi, Sarit Thanarat, Rahul Sankrityayan, and Ngô Đình Nhu. After him are Jacques Villon, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Camille Chautemps, Alan Gardiner, Otto Struve, and Dinah Washington.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Ernesto Lecuona ranks 43 out of 248. Before him are Chucho Valdés (1941), Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819), Leo Brouwer (1939), Nicolás Guillén (1902), Carlos Puebla (1917), and Bebo Valdés (1918). After him are José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Carmen Herrera (1915), Ana de Armas (1988), Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901), Steven Bauer (1956), and Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942).

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Among COMPOSERS In Cuba

Among composers born in Cuba, Ernesto Lecuona ranks 2. Before him are Leo Brouwer (1939).

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