Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (born 1908) became an American composer, pianist, and conductor. Nin-Culmell combined the features of national Spanish music he learned from his father, Cuban composer and pianist Joaquín Nin, and the neo-classical elements of modernist composition that he learned from Manuel de Falla.

Joaquín Nin-Culmell's father, Joaquín Nin, was taken from Cuba to Barcelona as a child to study music. In 1902 he moved to Paris, where he studied piano with Moszkowski and composition at the Schola Cantorum. In 1905, at the age of 26, Nin became a professor of piano at this institution, where later his son would also study. When he moved to Berlin in 1908 he retained an honorary professorship at the Schola Cantorum.

Joaquín Nin-Culmell was born in Berlin in 1908. His father moved the family to Cuba in 1910 and there created a concert society and...