| Ángel Sauce | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Born | August 2, 1911 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | December 26, 1995 (aged 84) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, violinist and conductor |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Associated acts | Venezuela Symphony Orchestra |
Ángel Sauce, (born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 2, 1911; died in Caracas, Venezuela on December 26, 1995), was a Venezuelan composer, violinist and conductor.
his parents were Juan Vicente Sauce and Justa Sauce. he spent his childhood in the San Juan parish of Caracas. He studied music in the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy (today "José Ángel Lamas"), with the teachers José Lorenzo Llamozas, Vicente Emilio Sojo and Manuel Leoncio Rodriguez. In 1944, the graduating class of the Higher School of National Music included him as masterful composer.
Between 1945 and 1946 he was granted a scholarship by the municipality of New York, (United States), where he achieved a postgraduate degree in composition, choir-conducting and orchestra at Columbia University.
In 1930 he helped found the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra as a violinist; in 1947, he was made conductor of that institution, a position he fulfilled for more than 12 years.
In 1943 he began, in the Ministry of Employment, the organization of a choir conformed by more than 100 voices of workers. The orphy gave its first concert on July 24 that year, with the name "Orfeón Juan Manuel Olivares" (today, "Coral Venezuela"). he was also the founder of choral groupings of the Caracas Electric Company (Electricidad de Caracas), Andrés Bello Catholic University (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello), the Latino Choir of New York (1945), and the Orphy of blind people of the Venezuelan Institute for the Blind. With these groupings he undertook the task of presenting the public in general with Venezuelan folk music, arranged for choir. he was also a pioneer in organizing symphonic-chorale concerts.
In addition he was a founder of the Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes (INCIBA)'s Chamber Orchestra, the Band and Symphony Orchestra of the Armed Forces, the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (Orquesta Juvenil de Venezuela), and the Juan José Landaeta National Conservatory (Conservatorio Juan José Landaeta), institution that he directed for more than 30 years along with his wife Adda Elena Alvarado de Sauce and in which he dictated composition classes and held the chair of an Electro-Acoustic Music Department, the first of this type in the country.
Among his more important works are: Concierto para violín y orquesta; Apertura sinfónica; Cantata Reina Jéhova, for soloist, choir and orchestra; Cecilia Mujica, a symphonic-chorale ballet; Romance del Rey Miguel, a nationalistic ballet where he uses native instruments; Sonata para violín y piano; and Canción de libertad, for soloist, choir and orchestra. In 1948, he received the National Music Award (Premio Nacional de Música) for Cecilia Mújica, and in 1982, he received it for his life-long achievements as a musician .