At various times she composed works for the piano as well as a string quartet and the Petite Danse Tsigane for orchestra. She developed a mezzo-soprano voice of sufficient calibre to enable her to appear as an opera singer; and, with the second of her four husbands, Giovanni Tagliapietra, a baritone, organized and directed an opera company in Caracas.

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Venezuelan Treasures for Piano Volume 4 Teresa Carreño's are delightful, fresh, and superior so-called salon pieces. They present many technically interesting challenges, but are also…