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{{short description|Cuban pianist and composer}}
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'''María Emma de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui''' (24 September 1873 – 20 October 1957) was a Cuban pianist and composer who lived and worked in Spain. She was born in [[Camagüey]], [[Cuba]], and moved to Spain with her family when she was nine years old. She studied with [[Joaquin Zuazagoitia]] in [[Santiago de Compostela]] and continued her studies in the Conservatorio Real in [[Madrid]]. She studied with [[Louis Diemer]] and [[Jules Massenet]] in Paris and with [[Vincent d'Indy]].
After completing her education, she worked as a composer and pianist, giving concerts with [[Pablo Casals]]. Her music was performed in Paris and in Cuba. She died in Madrid.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA2|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |access-date=10 January 2011|isbn=9780393034875}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Con música, textos y presencia de mujer|first1=Alicia Valdés|last1=Cantero|first2=Alicia|last2=Valdés|year=2005}}</ref>
==Works==
Selected works include:
*''Serenata Española''
*''La Peregrinacion de Childe Harold''
*''Poemo sinfonico''
*''En el Campo de Waterloo''
*''La vida de sueño'', opera
*''La infancia''
*''Danzas Cubanas''
*''Seranata andaluza''
*''Ballade guerriere ecossaise'' (text: Sir Walter Scott)
*''A une femme'' for voice and cello
She also published an essay ''La etica y la estitica en la obra musical''.
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