Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera (August 23, 1913 - October 22, 1993) was a Venezuelan
musician
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composer
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writer
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. Director of several orchestras and the founder of ''The National Typical Orchestra'', he was also for twenty years the director of the National Institute of Folklore. He founded the International Foundation of Ethnomusicology and Folklore (now Centro de La Diversidad Cultural) in 1988 and donated the bulk of his estate to it when he died. He authored more than 20 works of Venezuelan folklore.
Sources
Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera Biography
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Music of Venezuela
Several styles of the traditional music of Venezuela, such as salsa and merengue, are common to its Caribbean neighbors. Perhaps the most typical Venezuelan music is joropo, a rural form which originated in the llanos, or plains.
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1913 births
1993 deaths
Venezuelan folklorists
People from San Cristóbal, Táchira
Venezuelan composers
Venezuelan male composers
Venezuelan male poets
20th-century Venezuelan poets
20th-century Venezuelan composers
20th-century Venezuelan male writers
20th-century Venezuelan male musicians
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