Inocente Carreño

Inocente Carreño ( born December 28, 1919 in Porlamar on Isla Margarita) is a Venezuelan composer.

Carreño received his first musical education by Lino Gutierrez, whose band he experienced for the first time at the age of nine years. In 1932 he followed his brother Francisco to Caracas, where he studied at the Escuela de Música y Vicente Emilio Sojo at Declamción. When Federico Williams, he learned the trumpet and was a singer in the Orfeón Lamas and trumpeter in the Orquestra Sinfónica de Venezuela.

After obtaining his diploma in 1946, he taught at several music schools. In 1970, he founded the school Prudencio ESAA, 1989 and was appointed Director of the Escuela Superior de Música de Caracas.

After he had composed especially popular dances such as Joropos, Merengues, waltzes, rumbas, tangos and boleros in his early years, he later turned to the great classical forms. It originated among others four symphonic overtures, a suite for string orchestra, a Symphony Satirica, several symphonic poems ( including the famous Margaritena 1954 ), chamber works, two suites for guitar, waltz for piano and songs with orchestral accompaniment.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Composer ( Venezuela)
• Venezuelan
• Born in 1919
• Man