Manuel Rueda

Manuel Antonio Rueda González (27 August 1921 in Monte Cristi Province; † 20 December 1999 in Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican writer and pianist.

Rueda studied at the Liceo Musical at María Luisa Nanita and Olivia Pichardo and was later a student of Manuela Jiménez. He continued his education at the Rosita Renard 's Conservatory in Santiago de Chile and, together with Armando Palacios Bate, undertook a concert tour through South America, after which he finished with the Premio Orrego Carvallo excellent.

When he returned to the Dominican Republic after fourteen years, he became director of the Liceo Musical Pablo Claudio in San Cristóbal and later became a piano professor at the Conservatorio de Santo Domingo. At the Interamericano de Música Festival in 1972, he played with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la República Dominicana George Gershwin Piano Concerto in F .

In addition, Rueda was a member of the Instituto de Investigaciones folklóricas of the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. In 1974, he founded the avant-garde literary movement of Pluralism (philosophy) alongside Miguel Vila Luna, who expanded it in architectonics. He was a member of the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua, and was a member of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales of the Universidad de Chile Of the Dominican Government with the Order de Duarte, Sánchez y Mella. Six times he received the Premio Anual de Literatura and in 1995 the Premio Teatral Tirso de Molina.

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