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An experimental recording in 1924 by
Thomas Alva Edison.
"La bella Cubana - habanera (1924)
"La Bella Cubana ‐ José White (composer)
José Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte (1835‐1918) was such a fine violinist that
they called him 'el Paganini cubano' (the Cuban Paganini). José White, violinist and com‐
poser, was an African‐American Cuban, partly of Haitian background. He was such a fine
violinist, that he was compared favorably with his contemporaries Weinawski, Viewtemps,
and Ole Bull (a great Norwegian violinist). White was famous in Europe, especially in Paris,
and performed in New York and Boston as well on a Stradivarius violin. He was a friend of
the famous Afro‐American musician Gottschalk of Louisiana. Despite the prejudices of the
times, José White was a student of and then an assistant to the great violin teacher Delphin
Alard in the 1860s at the Paris Conservatoire; he also married a French Countess.
José White wrote a lot of violin music, including a concerto for violin and the song
La Bella Cubana, which became his most famous work and the most popular Cuban song
after the National Anthem. The middle section of La Bella Cubana is a Cuban zapateado.
From about 1870 to the1970s his concerto was lost. Finally, it was found at the Paris Conser‐
vatoire and was premiered first by Ruggiero Ricci, then by Aaron Rosand with the New
York Philharmonic, and then in 1976 by Maestro Luís Haza at Catholic University in Wash‐
ington, D.C.. Maestro Luís Haza, who heard Rosand's concert, is a violinist in the National
Symphony Orchestra and is the conductor of the American Youth Philharmonic in Northern
Virginia. José White's Concerto, in the very difficult key of F# minor, has also been performed
by Alex Kerr, a concertmaster in Amsterdam. The Concerto, unfortunately out of print,
sounds like a combination of Paganini, Viewtemps, and Weinawski.
"La bella cubana", a Habanera, was originally written for two violins and piano."
"La Bella Cubano- Habanera
Performed by: El Trio Cubano - violins and piano
Record format: Edison Diamond Disc test pressing
Matrix number: 9717-A-1-1
Recording date: September 18, 1924
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 77575
This item is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Author: El Trio Cubano
Date: 1924-00-00 00:00:00
Source: National Park Service
Creative Commons license: Public Domain"
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