José Domingo Bousquet Puig

Violinist. He traveled to Paris to complete his general musical education and perfect his violin technique. He played duos, trios, quartets, and quintets where his violin qualities always stood out.

He was born in La Habana, Cuba. He studied violin with Joaquín Gavira and Miguel Rappetti in La Habana.

In 1842 he traveled to Paris to complete his general musical education and that of the violin, which he perfected with Andrés Robberechts. Later he would travel, for purposes of study, through: España, Italia, Inglaterra and Estados Unidos

As a violinist, his execution was clean without being surprising, his technique mediocre and nothing more; he had a sympathetic tone, good intonation, if not entirely accurate and just in certain cases, and a staccato like a work of nature, marvelous [...].

In September of 1856 Bousquet wrote in the Diario de la Marina:
Style with musical diction is the expression of the different passions and feelings of man, according to the particular character of each composition. It is called grand when, in nobly expressing more or less elevated feelings, it perhaps disregards some detail, so as not to descend into matter the inspired artist, who only seeks to represent the impulses that the elevation of the phrases he identifies with engenders in his heart, and small style is that of details, caring for accessories even to the detriment of beautiful ideals. This is the most common precisely because a greater number of poor and meager organizations exist. It is not enough to say I want to be an artist; it is necessary to have been born with that gift from Divinity.

It is said that Bousquet performed admirably the Caprices of Niccolo Paganini, and was accompanied in the gatherings at the house of Serafín Ramírez, where the Classical Music Society was established, by: Giovanni Battista Bottesini, Manuel Saumell, Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, Pablo Desvernine, José Van der Gutch, Anselmo López, Jaime Santacana, Carlos Anckermann and Fernando Arizti
In works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Vieuxtemps and Viotti.

He played duos, trios, quartets, and quintets where his violin qualities always stood out. "To Bousquet's talent is undoubtedly due the organization and maintenance of those classical sessions, which without him would have been impossible."