Childhood and adolescence
He is the
son of Antonio Lauro Ventura, who was a barber and musician, born in Pizzo
Calabro, Italy and Armida Cutroneo, Maratea born in a village in southern
Italy, who was the inspiration for the track that name: Armida.1 His father
died when just met five years. The musical studies in Caracas at the age of
nine years at the Academy of Music and Declamation (now School of Music Jose
Angel Lamas), 2 which was a disciple of Vicente Emilio Sojo, Juan Bautista
Plaza, Savador Llamozas and Raúl Borges who was his teacher classical guitar
between 1930 and 1940, the first chair of Classical Guitar made in Venezuela,
founded by Master Borges. Because they lacked
financial resources with which to finance his musical studies, had to pay
working as a guitarist in the programs of the radio station Broadcasting
Caracas (now Radio Caracas Radio). Lamas group member Choir, founded by Vicente
Emilio Sojo in 1928 and which headed for 9 years, where sometimes he played
bass playing was also.
In 1947, he
composed one of his first major works, the symphonic poem with soloists and
chorus Cantaclaro, inspired by the novel by Rómulo Gallegos. Following the coup
of November 24, 1948 during the dictatorship of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez,
was imprisoned and exiled by their association with some leaders of the
Democratic Action Party, remaining 10 years (1948-1958) abroad. During this
time he composed works musicales.2 Lauro is considered one of the major Latin
American masters of classical guitar. Director of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra
where he also reached the position of drummer and horn solo and trio Raúl
Borges, which was founded in 1942, with Manuel Enrique Perez Diaz and
Montenegro Flaminia De Sola. He composed numerous works for classical guitar
waltz Natalia being one of the most famous and forced part in many guitar
competitions. His early works for this instrument were especially Venezuelan
waltzes in 3/4 measure, which played in 6/8. Such was the quality of these
compositions guitarist John Williams called the teacher Lauro the "Strauss
Guitar".
He
distinguished himself as an excellent guitarist, but his universal popularity
increased, no doubt, by the incorporation of his works in four great masters
programs: the Spanish Andrés Segovia, the Australian-British John Williams, the
Cuban Leo Brouwer and Venezuelan Alirio Diaz, who was a great friend of Lauro
and who was, in 1980, the first solo studio recording of his "Concerto for
Guitar and Orchestra" with the Orquesta Symphonic Venezuela.
He died in
Caracas, Venezuela on April 18, 1986.
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