Date: 2020-10-26 09:22:07
By: María Regla Figueroa Evans

The Cuban composer Harold Gramatges is a very special figure within Cuban culture. Diplomatic by nature, he was the first ambassador and cultural attaché of

Cuba in France after the triumph of the revolution, despite having no experience in these matters.

 He was one of the few Cubans to obtain the Tomás Luis de Victoria Ibero-American Music Prize (Spain), a prize awarded for his creative work that includes

songs for children, pieces for piano and guitar, works for symphony orchestras with which he performed concerts and great symphonies.

 According to Maestro Efraín Amador, creator of the Escuela Cubans de Tres y Laud, Gramatges had a very special grace as a communicator, he knew how to

listen and above all, he had a physical sympathy that allowed him to establish a unique communication with his students within and outside the classroom,

standing out just like a plus size pedagogue does.

 In addition to his personal grace, he possessed a universal culture. Some of his disciples, compared him to an open book with thousands of pages full of

wisdom, in the academic and human order, ready to be read by anyone in need of some kind of knowledge.

Efraín also said that most of the composers and students of the generation of the 70s, 80s and 90s of the last century were students of Harold. Harold

Gragmatge distinguished himself as a professor in the area of ​​Composition, and in Analytical Auditions.

 For any current composer, the work of Harold Gramatge is a point of reference for the technical richness and compositional beauty that is summarized in it.

However, upon his physical departure, he is still present in Cuban musicians and in national culture in general, because as José Martí said: “There is only

one way to live after death, having been a man of all times or of his time ”.

 Edited by Francisco Martínez Chao