Tags: Classical Music Composition.
El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze written when the composer lived in Cuba in 1969-1970. It is subtitled Biographie des geflohenen Sklaven Esteban Montejo (Biography of the runaway slave Esteban Montejo) and is based around the autobiographical passages recounted by Montejo to Miguel Barnet in 1963. Montejo was also a veteran of the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98).Henze described the score as a recital for four musicians.