This year 2017, two outstanding Venezuelan musicians are commemorated and honored in the best possible way: always playing their music.
First, Teresa Carreño, the ex-pianist from Caracas. His manner of playing, his passion became universal news: Paris, New York, Berlin, Cuba, Spain and, of course, Venezuela were some of the scenarios where he performed.
A prodigy, she was born in Caracas on December 22, 1853. Her father, the author of the "Manual de Urbanidad", Manuel Antonio Carreño, had to leave Venezuela, Teresa being a child, and because of her prodigious talent, Concerts from small.
After a life full of great satisfactions and great personal disappointments, of a hard life to be separated of its affections, but full in applause and recognitions - it crossed with Franz Liszt and for the Abraham Lincoln -, Teresa Carreño passed away in New York 12 Of June of 1917, to the 63 years of age.
That is why the musical world celebrates and commemorates it.
Secondly, Antonio Lauro, composer and guitarist born in Ciudad Bolivar on August 3, 1917. So great and deep is the imprint that this musician has left on the guitarists of the world (not only Venezuela) that all August 3 Of each year, at least one of Lauro's works is interpreted, at least its famous valse No. 3, also known like "Natalia".
Lauro was, in the twentieth century, the musician who put Venezuela on the world map of music, his works are a must study for all guitarists on the planet, so the most played Venezuelan author in the world is, precisely, he.
Carreño and Lauro are, then, object of veneration on the part of the recent generations of Venezuelans, and this is his jubilar year.
