About Atanasio Bello Montero
Lived 1800 – 1876. Atanasio Bello Montero was a Venezuelan conductor.
Atanasio Bello Montero (born in Caracas) was a nineteenth-century Venezuelan composer and music educator.
Career Montero trained under Pedro Palacios y Sojo and founded an academy for music in Caracas with Luís Jumel in 1821. With José María Izáza he founded a philharmonic society in the same city in 1831. From 1834 he directed a music education institution founded by the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, and he founded Bogota's first opera company in 1847.
As a composer he is best known for his 1842 Vigil and Mass of the Dead, which were performed upon the transfer of Simon Bolivar's ashes to Caracas.
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Who was Atanasio Bello Montero?
Venezuelan musician
When was Atanasio Bello Montero born?
Atanasio Bello Montero was born in 1800 in Caracas.
When did Atanasio Bello Montero die?
Atanasio Bello Montero died in 1876 in Caracas.
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Atanasio Bello Montero was a conductor.
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Atanasio Bello Montero was Venezuelan.
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