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Ernesto de Quesada was born in the . is a synonym for Campesino .) In 1905, with his income from teaching and some additional funds borrowed from his parents, de Quesada went to the United States . There he studied English for some months in Boston, Massachusetts , attending church on Sundays to listen to the services and accustom his ears to the new language. He enrolled at Harvard University , where one of his fellow students was Julio Cesar Tello , who would later become an Archaeologist in Peru . They remained friends for many years.3 After completing his Philosophy studies at Harvard, de Quesada went to Germany . In 1908, in Berlin ,4 de Quesada founded the concert management company Konzertdirektion H. Daniel. As he was only 22 years old and the agency's sole proprietor, he invented an imaginary senior business partner, "Herr Heinrich Daniel," who was said to be out of town whenever anyone asked to speak to him. In 1914, on the verge of World War I , de Quesada moved to Madrid , there re-establishing his agency as Conciertos Daniel , with plaques for "H. Daniel" and "Ympresario E. de Quesada" on the doorway, where the artists he would represent included Gaspar Cassadó and Andrés Segovia . In 1916, he married Ascensión Delgado Casarreales, a graduate ( Guitar and Violin ) of the Conservatorio De Música . In 1917, as and Ernesto de Quesada — the latter had been Rubinstein's manager in Spain and Latin America since the First World War… Rubinstein practically negotiated my first contract for me!” de Quesada travelled with him from Cádiz to South America on the Cruiser ''Infanta Isabel.''56 Rubinstein performed his Argentina Début concert in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Odéon ( Teatro Colón ?) on 2 July 1917 , in a tour which included concerts in Montevideo , Santiago De Chile and Valparaíso as well. In Spain, Ernesto de Quesada also created “Associations for Musical Culture,”7 founding an ''Asociación de Cultura Musical'' in each of more than fifty cities in Spain , including small towns where people had never before heard a classical music recital. He also loaned each of them a ''piano de cola'' — a Grand Piano — without asking for payment. These associations nearly disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, as did the pianos. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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