Jorge González Allué
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Jorge Gonzalez Allue. Outstanding pianist, composer and conductor from Camagüey
He was born in Camagüey on February 10, 1910. He began his musical studies as a child, in 1920 with a cousin, María Josefa González Allué, and later continued with teacher Maria Larín Carmenates. In 1925 he graduated in piano, music theory and theory at the Hubert de Blanck National Conservatory of Music in Havana.
In 1931 he offered his first public recital, in which he premiered Mulata y Negro bembón, with texts by Nicolás Guillén. He worked as a teacher. In 1935 he founded his jazz band Yemayá, with which he debuted on October 5 at the Teatro Principal (Camagüey).
In 1936 he traveled to Cali, Colombia, where he worked as a pianist with the Florián Maya orchestra, made up of Cuban and Colombian musicians, and in 1937 to Lima, Peru, with the Don Vidal orchestra, with which he performed at the Lima chain. In 1938, at the Auditorium Theater in Havana, he performed, together with eleven pianists, Ernesto Lecuona's La Malagueña, and was among the twenty-four who accompanied Esther Borja in Serenata.
His Loving Guajira was premiered in Camagüey in 1937 by the singer Luis Raga, with the Yemayá Orchestra, on the CMJK radio station, La Voz del Camagüeyano. In 1957, in Havana, he worked as an accompanying pianist in the Café de los Artistas, a television program by Gaspar Pumarejo and Otto Sirgo. In August 1959 he returned to Camagüey, where he led a combo that debuted at the Aeroclub in that city. He directed the musical comedy Las Yaguas, by Piloto and Vera, and Perfect marriage, which he also musicalized, by Rómulo Loredo Alonso.
Between 1951 and 1956, he was a professor at the Enrique José Varona University and from 1956 to 1957, at the Ignacio Agramonte University, and teacher and director of the Municipal Academy of Music, later the Conservatory, where he retired in 1973. During this period he dedicated himself to studying Cuban musical folklore and that of other countries, and made some programs on this subject.
The Camagüeyan composer and pianist Jorge González Allúe died on November 4, 2001 and was buried in the local cemetery, while Amorosa guajira was sung, the best known of his 386 works, one of the contributions of 81 years linked to music.