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| | José Silvestre White, Afro-Cuban Composer, Violinist & Professor |
 | | José Silvestre White, aka José Silvestre White y Lafitte, was an Afro-Cuban composer, violinist and professor. |
 | | According to Argote (1953, 83) the violinist was born José Silvestre White y Lafitte in Matanzas, Cuba, on December 31, 1835. |
 | | White's earliest association with the city of Paris dates from about 1855, when he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory as a student, following an audition with sixty rival candidates and the unanimous recommendation of his faculty jurors (Trotter [1878] 1986, 225). |
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