Manuel Bonnín Guerín

Manuel Bonnín Guerín was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 24 December 1898. He died in the same city on 21 February 1993. The Canary Academy of Fine Arts presents him as an instrumental musician, teacher and composer, son of the pianist and teacher Antonio Bonnín Fuster and younger brother of the watercolourist Francisco Bonnín.

According to the RACBA academic profile, he studied string instruments and piano, learned harmony and counterpoint with his father and violin with Hugo Pagani. In 1918 he premiered his Sonata for violin and piano in C minor at the Teatro Municipal of Santa Cruz, now Teatro Guimerá. From 1929 he was linked to the Music Academy of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, where he taught solfège and piano, and later transposition, accompaniment and chamber music.

The same source states that he played viola in the chamber orchestra founded in 1935 by Santiago Sabina, chaired the music section of the Círculo de Bellas Artes from 1935 to 1940 and became a full member of the RACBA on 4 May 1972. His known works include sonatas for violin and piano, a sonata for cello and piano, string quartets, a piano trio, Navidad en Tenerife, Capricho para orquesta de cuerdas and Ofrenda.