HENRIQUEZ URENA 



MAX HENRIQUEZ URENA 



Author; musician; critic- 

 teacher. 



Max Henriquez Urena was born in 

 Santo Domingo on the sixteenth of Novem- 

 ber, 1885. He was educated in his native 

 place and at an early age entered upon the 

 literary career, being dramatic critic of 

 La Lucha of Santo Domingo when he was 

 fifteen. In 1901 he was granted a pension 

 by the Dominican Government to enable 

 him to go abroad to study music and he 

 began to develop his aptitude for this art 

 in the New York College of Music. Very 

 soon, however, he abandoned his musical 

 studies and though, to be sure, he produced 

 some few compositions, he found his real 

 vocation in literature to which he devoted 

 himself. In 1903 he settled in Cuba and 

 there in Santiago de Cuba founded, and 

 during two years published, the magazine 



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