Miguel Faílde
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His orchestra was highly successful, though his major achievements were the creation of the danzón and the compositions he wrote, many of which have been adapted since for other rhythms. The danzón was, in his own words, a development of the danza, and that was the child of the contradanza. "De la danza al danzón había un simple paso." (from the danza to the danzón is a simple step) Actually, it was not quite such a simple step. For a start, the danzón was a much slower dance than both the contradanza and the danza; and it allowed for pauses between the different sections of a number. Both these features were welcomed in the tropical climate of Cuba. Perhaps even more significantly, the danzón was a couple dance, though not a moving one like the waltz. The contradanza and danza were both sequence dances involving the whole dance-floor, as were all ballroom dances before the waltz.
The habanera was the established favourite before the danzón came on the scene. It was also a slow dance, and a descendant of the contradanza. The habanera had the advantage of being a ''sung'' genre, which the danzón was not until much later. Both genres made use of syncopated creole rhythms; in the danzón it is the cinquillo. In retrospect it is often difficult to see why one genre is preferred to another; the quality of compositions and the orchestras which choose to play it must have some influence.
Did Faílde really invent the danzón? The doubt is caused by the work of Manuel Saumell, who anticipated many of the rhythms which came later in the 19th century, and who may be the most important Cuban composer of that century. At length the Cuban government made Faílde the official inventor of the danzón – in 1960, by which time the danzón had become a relic, and its 'child', the chachachá, had taken over.
After his death in 1921 he was interred in the Necropolis San Carlos Borromeo, Matanzas. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Damiron, Francisco Alberto Simo, Diaz, Miguel Angar, Duarte, Ernesto, Failde, Miguel, Gonzalez, Ruben, López, Orlando, Matamoros, Miguel, Pineiro, Ignacio, Rodríguez, Arsenio, Roig, Gonzalo, Segundo, Compay, Valdes, Rolando
Published 2015
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2by Damiron, Francisco Alberto Simo, Diaz, Miguel Angar, Duarte, Ernesto, Failde, Miguel, Gonzalez, Ruben, Lopez, Orlando, Matamoros, Miguel, Pineiro, Ignacio, Rodriguez, Arsenio, Roig, Gonzalo, Segundo, Compay, Valdes, Rolando
Published 2015
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