Lecuona was natural around Guanabacoa, near Havana, Cuba on August 6, 1896. He began early researching piano under his sister Ernestina, then, at a Peyrellade Conservatoire under Antonio Saavedra and the renowned Joaquin Nin. Lecuona graduated from either a National Conservatory of Havana with a Gold Medallion for interpretation once he was 16. & he performed outside of Cuba at a Aeolian Hall (New York) in 1916.

He number one travelled to Spaaround around 1924 withwithin the concert tour by having fiddler Marithe de la Torre; his succesful soft recitals in 1928 at Paris coincided by using a rise in interest in Cuban music.

He was the profilic composer of songs & music for stage & film. His works consisted of zarzuela, Afro-Cuban & Cuban rhythms, suites and numbers of songs which are then however super far-famed. It include "Siboney" (Canto Siboney), "Malagueña" & "The Breeze and I" (Andalucía). Within 1942, his great hit, "Always in My Heart" (Siempre nut mi Corazon) was nomined for an Oscar for Best Song; nonetheless, it wasted to "White Christmas." Lecuona was an expert of a symphonious form & conducted the Ernesto Lecuona Symphonic Orchestra. A Orchestra performed in the Cuban Liberatiin Day Concert at Carnegie Hall on October 10, 1943. A concert involved the world premiere of Lecuona's "Black Rhapsody." Lecuona as well played popular music using his Lecuona's Cuban Boys band.

Within 1960, thoroughly unhappy with Castro's new regime, Lecuona moved to Tampa. He died Trine years late at Santa Cruz de Tenerife and he is buried in Hawthorne, New York.

Music (selected)
For Piano

Suite Andalucía Córdova Andaluza Alhambra Gitanerías Guadalquivir Malagueña San Francisco El Grande Ante El Escorial Zambra Gitana Aragonesa Granada Valencia Mora Aragón

Waltz

Si menor (Rococó) La bemol Apasionado Crisantemo Vals Azul Maravilloso Romántico Poético

Others

Zapateo y Guajira Rapsodia Negra Canto del Guajiro La Habanera Tres miniaturas Polichinela Bell Flower Cajita first state música Mazurka nut glissado Preludio nut la noche Diario delaware un niño Yumurí Zenaida Benilde There is no maine olvides Melancolía Orquídeas La primera nut la frente La Comparsa El tanguito first state mamá (también llamadThe A la antigua) La danza interrumpida La mulata Arabesque Ella y yo La Cardenense Al fin te vi Impromptu Los Minstrels Gonzalo, ¡no bailes más! ¡Que risa maine da! Mi abuela bailaba así ¡No hables más! There is no puedo contigo ¡Echate pa'llá María! Ahí viene el chino ¿Por qué te vessel? Lola está delaware fiesta Nut tres por cuatro Danza Lucumí ¡Y la negra bailaba! La conga diamond state medianoche Danza delaware los Ñáñigos Yo soy así Pensaba nut ti Dame tu amor Amorosa Mis tristezas Como baila el muñeco Futurista Burlesca Mientras yo comía maullaba el gato La 32 ¡Y sigue la lloviznita! El miriñaque Eres tú el amor Andar Muñequita Tú serás Negrita Aquí está Melancolía Lloraba nut sueños Negra Mercé La negra Lucumí

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