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Jorge Luis Prats - Piano 00:00 Soledad 01:23 Intima 02:05 Cortesana 03:07 Adiós a Cuba 04:27 Mensaje 05:16 El velorio 06:10 Invitación 06:55 Los tres golpes 07:39 Siempre sí 08:23 Los delirios de rosita Ignacio Cervantes(1847-1905) was a Cuban Composer. A child prodigy, he was taught by pianist Juan Miguel Jval, later by composer and tutor Nicolás Ruiz Espadero in 1859, and by the visiting American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk encouraged Cervantes to study at the Conservatoire de Paris (1866–1870) under Antoine François Marmontel and Charles-Valentin Alkan, where he was awarded first prizes in composition (1866) and harmony (1867). He also performed with Christina Nilsson and Adelina Patti. In 1875 Cervantes and José White left Cuba when warned by the Governor-General: he had found out that they had been giving concerts all over the country to raise money for the rebel cause in the Ten Years' War. In the United State
