2008 is Hispania Clásica's centennial year. It was founded in Berlin in 1908 as Konzertdirektion H. Daniel by Cuban-born impresarioErnesto de Quesada.[1] As World War I was beginning in 1914, de Quesada moved his agency to Madrid and renamed it Conciertos Daniel.[2]
Ernesto de Quesada's youngest son, Ricardo de Quesada,[3][4] heading the agency in Madrid after the death of his father in 1972, reorganized the agency in 1996 and renamed it Hispania Clásica; he has recently (2007) retired. One of the founder's grandsons, Enrique de Quesada, Jr. in Caracas, Venezuela,[3][5] is the agency director for Latin America. Hispania Clásica also has offices in Mexico City and in Bogotá, Colombia.
^Hispania Clásica. "Brief biography of Ricardo de Quesada". Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Born in Madrid, he and his family left Spain during the Civil War and initially settled in Mexico, where he went to grade school in "Colegio Cristóbal Colón", studying privately at the time violin. Every Summer, after 1949, he and his parents spent their holidays in Spain at their property located in the base of Peñon de Ifach in Alicante.