Nicolás Ruiz Espadero: Partez ingrate!, Op. 15
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a song without words - 'Go, ungrateful one!' - by the Cuban composer/pianist Nicolás Ruiz Espadero (1832-90) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicolás Ruiz Espadero was born, died and lived his life in Havana (he never left Cuba). He was mainly self-taught, although he did study with Chopin's pupil Julius Fontana when Fontana spent time in Havana in the mid-1840s. He took piano pupils, and lived as a near-recluse in a house with 17 cats. Espadero had one of the most bizarre deaths of any musician: he habitually bathed in alcohol, and after one such bath he didn't dry himself properly and caught fire whilst trying to extinguish a gas light. This piece (from 1861) is quite similar in style to that of Gottschalk, whose music he edited after Gottschalk's death. The thumbnail shows part of a painting of a view of Havana in 1851. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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