Ángel Sauce, (born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 2, 1911; died in Caracas, Venezuela on December 26, 1995), was a Venezuelan composer, violinist and conductor.
his parents were Juan Vicente Sauce and Justa Sauce. he spent his childhood in the San Juan parish of Caracas. He studied music in the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy (today "José Ángel Lamas"), with the teachers José Lorenzo Llamozas, Vicente Emilio Sojo and Manuel Leoncio Rodriguez...
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Ángel Sauce, (born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 2, 1911; died in Caracas, Venezuela on December 26, 1995), was a Venezuelan composer, violinist and conductor.
his parents were Juan Vicente Sauce and Justa Sauce. he spent his childhood in the San Juan parish of Caracas. He studied music in the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy (today "José Ángel Lamas"), with the teachers José Lorenzo Llamozas, Vicente Emilio Sojo and Manuel Leoncio Rodriguez. In 1944, the graduating class of the Higher School of National Music included him as masterful composer.
Between 1945 and 1946 he was granted a scholarship by the municipality of New York, (United States), where he achieved a postgraduate degree in composition, choir-conducting and orchestra at Columbia University.
In 1930 he helped found the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra as a violinist; in 1947, he was made conductor of that institution, a position he fulfilled for more than 12 years.
In 1943 he began, in the Ministry of Employment, the...
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