MIAMI, United States. – Cuban musicographer and editor Radamés Giro Almenares died this Sunday in Havana at the age of 82, reported official media of the island.
After learning of the death of the outstanding intellectual, the Cuban Institute of Music (ICM) highlighted his career “in the universe of sounds, where he also worked as a researcher, writer and manager of a wide editorial work”.
Giro Almenares came from a family of troubadours from Santiago de Cuba. He graduated from the specialty of Theater at the National School of Art Instructors. Since 2006 he has served as the main editor of the Museo de la Música Editions.
It was also a brigade member in the Literacy Campaign and worked in the state publishing houses Pueblo y Educación, Arte y Literatura y Letras Cubanas.
He spent decades researching to write the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music in Cuba, one of the most important works of his career.
According to the ICM, this volume “constituted the result of four decades of uninterrupted research and is currently an indispensable source of information and a must-see.”
Giro Almenares received the National Publishing Prize in 1999, as well as the awards for Cultural Research and Scientific-Technical Criticism, the Alejo Carpentier Medal, the Distinction for National Culture, the Raúl Gómez García Order, among others.
Until his death he was a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). He also served as an advisor to the Smithsonian Foundation, in the United States.
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