Hispania Clásica, known from 1914 to 1996 as Conciertos Daniel, is a classical music concert promotion agency active in Europe and in the Americas. The agency's primary base is in Madrid, Spain.
2008 is Hispania Clásica's centennial year. It was founded in Berlin in 1908 as Konzertdirektion H. Daniel by Cuban-born impresario Ernesto de Quesada. As World War I was beginning in 1914, de Quesada moved his agency to Madrid and renamed it Conciertos Daniel.
Ernesto de Quesada's youngest son, Ricardo de Quesada, heading the agency in Madrid after the death of his father in 1972, reorganized the agency in 1996 and renamed it Hispania Clásica; he has recently (2007) retired. One of the founder's grandsons, Enrique de Quesada, Jr. in Caracas, Venezuela, is the agency director for Latin America. Hispania Clásica also has offices in Mexico City and in Bogotá, Colombia.
Carlos Izcaray, the young Venezuelan cellist and conductor who was a subject of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International concern in 2004, and who was a 2007 fellow of the elite American Academy of Conducting under the direction of David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival and School, is one of the Hispania Clásica artists.
Hispania Clásica is a member of the European Association of Artist Managers (AEAA), which was founded in Paris, France in 1947.
Artists The artists who have worked with the agency during its first ten decades include:
A B C D Larry Adler Gina Bachauer Robert Casadesus Jörg Demus Licia Albanese Wilhelm Backhaus Pablo Casals Misha Dichter Marian Anderson Paul Badura-Skoda Gaspar Cassadó Dietrich Fischer Dieskau Maurice André Fedora Barbieri Sergiu Celibidache Plácido Domingo Victoria de los Ángeles Daniel Barenboim Georges Cziffra François-René Duchâble Enrique Fernández Arbós Teresa Berganza Martha Argerich Jorge Bolet Claudio Arrau Alexander Brailowsky Martina Arroyo
E F G H I Duke Ellington Vladimir Feltsman Walter Gieseking Jascha Heifetz Imperio Argentina Mischa Elman Janina Fialkowska Emil Gilels Jascha Horenstein José Iturbi George Enescu Rudolf Firkusny Arthur Grumiaux Marilyn Horne Carlos Izcaray Edwin Fischer Citlalli Guevara Vladimir Horowitz Miguel Fleta Friedrich Gulda Justus Frantz Nelson Freire Ignaz Friedman
J K L M N Antonio Janigro Rudolf Kempe La Argentinita Nikita Magaloff Birgit Nilsson Byron Janis Paul Kletzki Wanda Landowska Enrico Mainardi Maryla Jonas Fritz Kreisler Alicia de Larrocha Igor Markevitch Vladimir Krpan Lily Laskine Yehudi Menuhin Horacio Lavandera Stefan Milenković Erich Leinsdorf Nathan Milstein Marguerite Long Pierre Monteux Moura Lympany Leticia Moreno Karl Münchinger
O P R S David Oistrakh Krysztof Penderecki Michael Rabin Regino Sainz de la Maza Eugene Ormandy Philadelphia Virtuosi Sergei Rachmaninoff Esteban Sánchez Rafael Orozco Gregor Piatigorsky Jean-Pierre Rampal György Sándor Adolfo Odnoposoff Ezio Pinza Ruggiero Ricci Emil von Sauer Ricardo Odnoposoff Lily Pons Pepe Romero Artur Schnabel Michael Ponti Artur Rubinstein Wolfgang Schneiderhan Rafael Puyana Elisabeth Schumann Andrés Segovia Abbey Simon Gérard Souzay Richard Strauss Conchita Supervía George Szell Henryk Szeryng Joseph Szigeti
T U V W Y, Z Magda Tagliaferro Alexander Uninsky Paul van Kempen Helen Watts Narciso Yepes Renata Tebaldi Edouard van Remoortel Felix Weingartner Nicanor Zabaleta Jacques Thibaud Astrid Varnay Alexis Weissenberg Dubravka Tomsic Vienna Boys' Choir Paul Tortelier Ramón Vinay Hans von Benda
References
External links Conciertos Daniel / Hispania Clásica Conciertos Daniel / Hispania Clásica