It can be hard to look past the stories of those composers who faced obstacles in their art at the hands of their own parents. There are some famous stories – from Germaine Tailleferre, who changed her name to break ties with her father, and Ethel Smyth, who...
Born in Caracas in 1853, Teresa Carreño was fortunate to be born into a musical family and receive instruction from Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein, fostering her talent as a young piano prodigy, and later as a singer, as well as a composer and conductor....