Joaquín Nin
Cuban pianist and composer
- Anaïs Nin
- Thorvald Nin
- Joaquín Nin-Culmell
Joaquín Nin y Castellanos[a] (29 September 1879 – 24 October 1949)[1] was a Cuban pianist and composer. Nin was the father of Anaïs Nin.
Biography
He was son of the Catalan writer Joaquin Nin Tudó and Àngela Castellanos Perdomo, a Cuban from Camagüey.[2] Nin studied piano with Moritz Moszkowski and composition at the Schola Cantorum (where he taught from 1906 to 1908). He toured as a pianist and was known as a composer and arranger of popular Spanish folk music. Nin was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Madrid and the French Legion of Honor.[3]
Married since 1902 with the Cuban singer Rosa Culmell, the were the parents of writer Anaïs Nin, businessman Thorvald Nin, and composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell.
Joaquín Nin appears as one of the characters in the novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead, 2008), by Cuban writer Daína Chaviano.
Memory
In her memoirs and fiction, his daughter Anaïs Nin often attempts to consider aspects of her own nature by recalling how her father treated her as a child. Her "unexpurgated" diary volume Incest: From a Journal of Love describes an incestuous relationship with him in adulthood. She described him as an egotistical Don Juan and would often imitate him by affecting a "Doña Juana" persona.
Notes
- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Nin and the second or maternal family name is Castellanos.
References
- ^ Latin American Classical Composers. A biographical dictionary. First edition. Edited by Miguel Ficher, Martha Furman Schleifer, and John M. Furman.
- ^ «Joaquim Nin i Castellanos». L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- ^ Taylor, Deems. "Dictionary of Musicians". Music Lovers' Encyclopedia. 4th ed. 1950. Important works for Violin and Piano: Seguida Española (Vieja Castilla, Murciana, Catalana, Andaluza), En el Jardin de Lindaraja.
External links
- Free scores by Joaquin Nin at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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- House of Incest (1936)
- Winter of Artifice (1939)
- Cities of the Interior
- Ladders to Fire
- Children of the Albatross
- The Four-Chambered Heart
- A Spy in the House of Love
- Seduction of the Minotaur
- Collages (1964)
- The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin (1978–1985)
- The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1966–1977)
- Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1986)
- A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1987)
- Incest: From a Journal of Love (1992)
- Fire: From a Journal of Love (1995)
- Nearer the Moon: From A Journal of Love (1996)
- Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (2013)
- Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955 (2017)
- Under a Glass Bell (1944)
- Waste of Timelessness: And Other Early Stories (1977)
- Delta of Venus (1977)
- Little Birds (1979)
- Auletris (2016)
- D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (1932)
- The Novel of the Future (1968)
- In Favor of the Sensitive Man (1976)
- Hugh Parker Guiler (husband)
- Rupert Pole (second husband)
- Joaquín Nin (father)
- Joaquín Nin-Culmell (brother)
- Henry Miller
- Henry & June (1990 film)
- Delta of Venus (1994 film)
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