Evencio Castellanos
Venezuelan composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Evencio Castellanos Yumar , was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and director of choirs and orchestra. Biography His parents were Pablo Castellanos Almenar and Matilde Yumar. His musical initiation came from the hand of his father, who was an organist and chapel master. In 1938 he entered the Escuela Superior de Música de Caracas, where he studied singing with Antonio Pardo Soublette, cello with Carlos Áñez, history of music with Juan Bautista Plaza, and harmony and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. On July 4, 1944 he graduated as a master composer, and as such he was part of the first generation of composers who graduated from Professor Sojo's composition chair, characterized in his creations towards the Latin American nationalist tendency. Among these stand out along with Castellanos: Antonio Estévez, Ángel Sauce, Antonio Lauro, Blanca Estrella, José Clemente Laya, Raimundo Pereira, Modesta Bor and Inocente Carreño, among others and who would become the most relevant Venezuelan composers of the 20th century
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