José Ángel Montero (born
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
October 2, 1832 - died Caracas August 24, 1881) was a
Venezuelan
opera composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
, a contemporary of the
Brazilian
Carlos Gomes. As ''maestro di capilla'' at the cathedral of Caracas he wrote religious music; he also composed a number of
zarzuela
() is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of ...
s and, in 1873, the opera ''
Virginia'', to an
Italian-language
libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...
.
Works
*''Doña Inés'' or ''la Política en el Hogar'', 1862.
*''La modista'' (zarzuela in two acts, 1864).
*''Fabio o Estela'' or ''el casamiento por Dote'', 1865.
*''La curiosidad de las Mujeres'' or ''El Huésped enamorado'', 1865.
*''Los Alemanes en Italia'', 1866.
*''Colegialas con colegialas'' (zarzuela in two acts), 1868.
*''La Castañera'', 1868.
*''El Charlatán Mudo'', 1873.
*''Diamira'', 1873.
*''Virginia'', 1873.
*''Tragedia Lírica'', 1873.
*''Atrás'' or ''el Centinela''.
*''Un baile en Caracas'' or ''el Cumpleaños de Leonor'' (zarzuela in one act), 1865.
*''La ardilla'' (zarzuela in one act).
*''La inocente Serranilla'' (zarzuela in one act).
*''La gallina Ciega'' (Overture zarzuela)
See also
*
Venezuelan music
*''
Virginia''
External links
*
1832 births
1881 deaths
Musicians from Caracas
Venezuelan classical composers
Venezuelan opera composers
19th-century classical composers
Male classical composers
19th-century male musicians
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