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CUBA DIAZ Y COMAS (VICENTE) Album Regio, [Havana, Litografia del Progresso, 1855]
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Rare work printed in Cuba. Diaz y de Comas was a Spanish doctor and composer, who settled in Havana. The Album Regio contains musical compositions in styles ranging from polkas to contradanza, including "a few valses that soon conquered salons throughout Havana" (Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, vol.9, p.904). Each page is decorated with the hand-coloured arms of the territories of the Spanish crown, from the home regions to Cuba, the Philippines and the West Indies. The author was travelling to Spain to present a copy to Isabel II, the dedicatee, but he was drowned en route when his ship sank.





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