Atanasio Bello Montero
Atanasio Bello Montero (born in Caracas) was a nineteenth-century Venezuelan composer and music educator.
Montero trained under and founded an academy for music in Caracas with in 1821. With 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.[1]
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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- People from Caracas
- Venezuelan conductors (music)
- Male conductors (music)
- 19th-century conductors (music)
- 19th-century male musicians