Juan Vicente Torrealba: Hands that enhance the vast Venezuelan plain (+seeding)

Published at: 02/05/2024 08:13 AM

On May 2, 2019, the Venezuelan harpist and composer, Juan Vicente Torrealba, died; a man with melodies that enhance the beauty and spirituality of the plain.

On February 20, 1917, he was born in the city of Caracas, but he grew up in Camaguán in the state of Guárico, because they took him away when he was months old.

His life was always marked by his love for the plain and its customs, such as those demonstrated by his travels through the towns of Guariqueña and Apurea to enjoy the patron saint festivities of these areas where he lived the essence of the plain that he would later capture in his more than 300 compositions.

As a result of his extensive and fruitful musical career, Maestro Torrealba has been recognized as one of the hundred most outstanding Latin American personalities of the 20th century, after receiving more than 45 national and international awards, including the Order of Liberators of America awarded by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, in 2017.

Today, five years after the departure of this master of Llanera music, the Venezuelan people honor the memory of the eternal Juan Vicente who, between harp, four and maracas, continues to resonate in the immensity of the plain to which he gave his muse and thought.

Mazo News Team