Atanasio Bello Montero (born in Caracas) was a nineteenth-century Venezuelan composer and music educator.
Montero trained under
Pedro Palacios y Sojo and founded an academy for music in Caracas with
Luís Jumel in 1821. With
José María Izáza 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.
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As a composer he is best known for his 1842 Vigil and Mass of the Dead, which were performed upon the transfer of
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's ashes to Caracas.
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