Rházes Hernández López (1918–1991) was a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

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 ...

and flutist born in

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 ...

June 30, 1918. He died in

in 1991. He composed several works for the piano, including ''Casualismo no. 6'' (1984), and ''Prisma no. 1'' (1979). Many of his works have been published by Ediciones del Congreso de la República, Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios Musicales "Vicente Emilio Sojo, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura." López wrote at least two works for piano trio: ''Fragmentación cero'' and ''Tres Espacios Para Trio'', a three-movement work. The latter was performed at the Third Music Festival of Caracas, Venezuela (1966) by violinist Jose Figueroa, cellist

Adolfo Odnoposoff Adolfo Odnoposoff (Buenos Aires, 22 February 1917 – Denton, Texas, 13 March 1992) was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe ...

, and pianist Hector Tosar. He composed at least one work for string orchestra, his ''Las torres desprevenidas'' (1990). The Library of Congress has copies of recordings of the ''Espacios'' and the ''Fragmentación'', scores of the other works, and an authority record on file for this composer.

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* ''- Jesús Ignacio Pérez Perazzo'' *Venezuela Symphony orchestra Magazine, 25th anniversary, 1955. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hernandez-Lopez, Rhazes 1918 births 1991 deaths Musicians from Caracas Venezuelan classical flautists Venezuelan composers Venezuelan male composers 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century composers 20th-century male musicians 20th-century flautists

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