Esteban Salas at Santiago cathedral

1803-01-01 · 1803

Esteban Salas ran the church music at Santiago de Cuba’s cathedral from the 1760s until he died in 1803. His church pieces are the oldest Cuban concert music we can still name. Years later his papers were found in the cathedral basement. That is how people learned who he was. “Carpentier’s discovery of Estaban Salas’s compositions in the basement vault of Santiago’s cathedral” — Ted Henken, music historian, “From Son to Salsa,” Latin American Research Review 41, no. 3 (2006), p. 198.

Genres: Música clásica