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Antonio Lauro
Antonio Lauro was a Venezuelan guitarist, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the instrument in the 20th century.
Biography
Antonio Lauro's father, an Italian immigrant, was a barber who could sing and play the guitar so he taught his son what he could, but died when Antonio was still a child. After the family moved to Caracas, Lauro pursued formal musical study at the Academia de Musica y Declamacion, where the distinguished composer Vicente Emilio Sojo (1887-1974) was one of his teachers. A 1932 concert performed in Caracas by Agustin Barrios, the legendary ...
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