Vicente Emilio Sojo

Vicente Emilio Sojo ( born December 8, 1887 in Guatire / Miranda; † August 11, 1974 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan composer.

Sojo had first lessons with Henrique León and Régulo Rico, where he trained in music theory, received the violin, flute, trumpet and guitar, before he came in 1906 to Caracas, where he in the Escuela de Música y Declamación 1910 Academia de Bellas Artes entered. There he studied music theory with Ignacio Bustamante and composition with Andrés Delgado Pardo. In 1912 he visited cello classes with Eduardo judge. In 1914, he was director of music at the Church of San Francisco.

As Hilario Guerra Machado 1921 Director of the Escuela de Música was Sojo got a job there as a professor of music theory. He worked as a conductor of the first major Colombian choir Orfeón Lamas, and founded in 1930 the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela, whose director he was. In 1936 he was appointed director of the Escuela Superior de Música José Angel Lamas, whose first graduates in 1944 completed their training. In 1940 he was co-editor of the first Venezuelan children hymnal.

To Sojos students were Evencio Castellanos, Antonio Estévez, Angel sauce, Antonio José Ramos, Inocente Carreño, Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar, Carlos Figueredo, Antonio Lauro, Blanca Estrella de Mescoli, José Clemente Laya, Manuel Ramos, Andrés Sandoval, José Luis Muñoz, Leopoldo Billings, Modesta Bor, Raymundo and Rogelio Pereira Pereira.

Sojo was also politically active. He founded Acción Democrática, 1941, and was elected in the state of Miranda in 1958 and 1963 as a Senator of the Republic.

Works

  • Himno a Bolívar, 1911
  • Romanza sin palabras, 1912
  • Meditación para quinteto de cuerdas, 1912
  • Treno para cuarteto, 1912
  • Minerva, 1912
  • Cuarteto en Re para cuerdas, 1913
  • Partitura para festiva, 1914
  • Tres motetes para la iglesia Santa Capilla, 1914
  • Misa Coral, 1915
  • Salve Reina, 1918
  • Obertura Treno, 1920
  • Ave María, 1922
  • Misa CROMATICA, 1923
  • Ocho responsorias y un Te Deum, 1924
  • Palabras de Cristo en el Calvario, 1925
  • 27 canciones de ayer, 1926-1927
  • Por la Cabra Rubia, 1928
  • Requiem Inmemorian Patris Patriae, 1929
  • Misa Breve, 1930-1933
  • Misa a capella en honor a Santa Efigenia ya su esposa fallecida, 1935
  • Tres canciones infantiles, 1939
  • Tres piezas para guitarras, 1952
  • Misa Santa Cecilia para 1953
  • 10 canciones infantiles Venezolanas, 1958
  • 9 Canciones infantiles, 1964-1969
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Composer ( Venezuela)
  • Venezuelan
  • Born in 1887
  • Died in 1974
  • Man
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