🎀 Hispanic Heritage Month 💃 Latin American women who broke every door: Teresa Carreño played for Abraham Lincoln at 10, ran her own opera company, and was called "the Valkyrie of the Piano" — Venezuela's first international music star 👑 Tania León fled Cuba in 1967 with nothing and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021 🏆 Two centuries apart. Same refusal to be stopped. VOTE BELOW👇 follow @daixcompose 💙
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🎀 Cute Composer Series: Hispanic Heritage Month — Latin American Women Who Broke Every Door Down 💃✨🎶 Two Latin American women. Two centuries apart. Both refused to be limited by a world that wasn't built for them. Teresa Carreño · 1853–1917 · Venezuela Called the "Valkyrie of the Piano" 👑 — she made her New York debut at 9, played for Abraham Lincoln at 10, and went on to become one of the most celebrated pianists on earth. She composed over 70 works, ran her own opera company, and was married four times — one of those husbands was composer Eugène d'Albert. She was Venezuela's first internationally acclaimed musician ✨ 🎧 Balse in E-flat major Tania León · b. 1943 · Cuba / United States Fled Cuba in 1967, arrived in New York with nothing, became the founding music director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and in 2021 won the Pulitzer Prize for Music 🏆 Her Stride — written for the NY Philharmonic's centenary of women's suffrage — is one of the most celebrated American orchestral works of recent years. 🎧 Stride 👉 Which one's music do you want to explore more? VOTE BELOW👇& follow @daixcompose for more Cute Composer spotlights 💙
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🎀 Hispanic Heritage Month 💃 Latin American women who broke every door: Teresa Carreño played for Abraham Lincoln at 10, ran her own opera company, and was called "the Valkyrie of the Piano" — Venezuela's first international music star 👑 Tania León fled Cuba in 1967 with nothing and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021 🏆 Two centuries apart. Same refusal to be stopped. VOTE BELOW👇 follow @daixcompose 💙
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🎶 Teresa Carreño: Balse in E-flat major (Performed by Clara Rodriguez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6fBLLSqFR0) 🎶 Tania León: Stride (NY Philharmonic Rehearsal — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxvTWr-NR4)
Photo links
Carreño: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Carre%C3%B1o | https://www.allclassical.org/hispanic-composers-in-america/ León: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Le%C3%B3n | https://www.tanialeon.com/biography