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Also known as Ignacio Cervantes Kawanag

Cuban pianist and composer (1847–1905)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Cuba
Active from
1847-07-31
Active to
1905-04-29

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Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh (Havana, 31 July 1847 – Havana, 29 April 1905) was a Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer, considered to be one of the most influential to the Music of Cuba. A child prodigy, he was taught by hometown pianist Juan Miguel Joval, later by composer and tutor Nicolás Ruiz Espadero (1859), and by the visiting American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk encouraged Cervantes to study at the Conservatoire de Paris (1866-1870) under Antoine François Marmontel and Char

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Cuba
Place of birth
Havana
Place of death
Havana
Occupation
pianist
Languages spoken
Spanish
Genre
opera
Instrument
piano
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date of birth
1847-07-31
date of death
1905-04-29
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