Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles

Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles 2008

Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles (born August 8, 1914 in Barquisimeto , Lara , † April 21, 2012 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan composer and music teacher.

Asuaje de Rugeles studied with Franco Medina and Ascanio Negretti and was a composition student of Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de Música José Ángel Lamas in Caracas. From 1948 to 1950 she studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, and in 1950 also with Jacobo Ficher in Buenos Aires. Eventually she took courses in music education in Paris and Geneva.

At the beginning of the 1950s, she stayed with her husband, the writer Manuel Felipe Rugeles, in the Venezuelan diplomatic service in Argentina and the USA. From 1953 to 1975 she taught at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares , which she was most recently director. For eleven years she was music editor at Radio Nacional de Venezuela .

Asuaje de Rugeles was a founding member of the Asociación Venezolana de Autores y Compositores , the Orquesta Pequeña Mavare and the Schola Cantorum de Caracas . From 1978 to 1986 she was the academic director of the Oerquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar . In 1993 she was awarded the Premio Docencia Musical by the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura for her services to the musical education of children and young people .

Works

• Estampas románticas for voice and piano quartet
• Soñando (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1941
• Himno a la agricultura (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1942
• Himno a la campaña de alfabetización (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles) for choir and piano, 1946
• Plenitud , 1946
• Himno de las bibliotecas de historias médicas , 1955
• El pájaro carpintero (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1955
• Canción de la nieve (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1963
• Himno de las ex alumnas del colegio de la inmaculada de Barquisimeto , 1964
• Beatriz for piano, 1964
• Estás entre tus líneas y mis ojos (text by Regulo Burelli Rivas ), 1966
• Serenata barquisimetana , Suite for double quintet , mandolin and piano, 1967
• Alma no me digas nada (text by Juan Guzmán Cruchaga ), 1967
• Himno de la enfermera , 1967
• Armonía eterna (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1968
• El clavel (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• ¡Ay, la vaquita de ordeño¡ (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• La garza (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• Las estrellas (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• Mariposas (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• Nada más (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• Nochebuena (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• Primavera (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1969
• Himno del maestro Saint Germain , 1972
• Himno de San Juan Tadeo
• Aire de joropo (text by Alicia Álamo Bartolomé ), 1973
• Canción de la niña desvelada (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• Canción para el niño desvelado (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles)
• Canción para tu nombre (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• Canto a Rowina (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• Danza en tiempo de minueto (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• El curruñatá (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• La guacharaca (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• La mar está agitada (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• La tortuguita (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles and Alicia Álamo Bartolomé), 1973
• Puerto del aire for voice, piano and small orchestra, 1977
• Canción para la niña desvelada (text by Manuel Felipe Rugeles), 1978
• Dos canciones de cuna , 1978
• Vocalise , 1978
• María Celeste for piano, 1980
• Dos cantos escolares , 1983
• María Carolina for piano, 1986

Web links

• Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles. Por: Rubén Cedeño (Spanish)
• Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles , entry at the Sociedad Venezolana de Música Contemporánea (Spanish)