An instrumental musician, teacher and composer from Tenerife whose chamber and piano works became closely associated with the Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes.
Manuel Bonnín Guerín was an instrumental musician, teacher, composer and full member of the Canary Academy of Fine Arts.
Open biographyThe RACBA presents him as an instrumental musician, teacher and composer. He trained in Santa Cruz de Tenerife with his father and with Hugo Pagani, worked as an orchestral violist in chamber groups and developed a long teaching career at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, where he taught solfège, piano, transposition, accompaniment and chamber music.
His importance lies in leaving a chamber oeuvre of great poetic refinement and in sustaining musical transmission in Tenerife through teaching, performance and private composition.
The RACBA describes him as an eclectic composer, with Germanic ambition but close to César Franck and French impressionist procedures. His catalogue focuses on quartets, sonatas, trios and short piano pieces, with a permanent interest in long-form discourse and lyrical intensity.
The selection gathers Sonata para violín y piano en do menor, Navidad en Tenerife, Ofrenda, Capricho para orquesta de cuerdas, Sonata para violonchelo y piano, Sonata para piano en mi menor, Cuarteto para cuerdas en re menor, Trío de do sostenido menor, Cuento, Pastoral and Poema.
His legacy is that of a composer recovered by Canarian musicology and the RACBA, whose chamber and piano works were revived through concerts, publications and monographic recordings.
His Canarian connection runs through Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the chamber orchestra founded by Santiago Sabina and the later rereading of his work by contemporary Canarian music.
Obra de debut citada por la RACBA como su primera gran sonata.
Obra orquestal temprana recuperada por la musicología canaria.
Pieza de cámara grabada en el proyecto RALS.
Pieza breve para piano que la RACBA conserva entre sus obras.
Obra orquestal citada por la RACBA y por el proyecto RALS.
Obra dedicada a Teobaldo Power, citada por la RACBA.
Nace en Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Estrena su Sonata para violín y piano en do menor en el Teatro Municipal de Santa Cruz.
Se incorpora a la Academia de Música del Círculo de Bellas Artes.
Se integra como viola en la orquesta de cámara fundada por Santiago Sabina.
Es nombrado Académico de Número de la RACBA.
Muere en Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
