Antonio Lauro

Antonio Lauro is most likely Venezuela’s best-known author of classical music, although his name is typically not familiar to anyone but aficionados of electric guitar music. On the Caracas conservatory he began in the academically accepted piano, but hearing Paraguayan guitarist Agustín Barrios motivated him to change to your guitar. That was in a single respect his salvation and in another his downfall. Few Latin American composers have observed their functions enter the worldwide repertory, but Lauro’s electric guitar pieces, specifically his Venezuelan Waltzes, have already been readily adopted by guitarists. Alternatively, his significant catalog of non-guitar music is nearly completely disregarded. Lauro composed symphonic suites, choruses, music, and a choral symphonic poem known as Cantacharo, but just his solo electric guitar pieces are performed and documented with any regularity; in 1956 he also composed a concerto for his device. International attention found Lauro just during his last years, so it is definitely often overlooked that he spent a lot of his previously years inside a folk trio known as Los Cantores del Trópico.