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Simón Wohnsiedler

His father, Jacobo Wohnsiedler, arrived from Germany to Barquisimeto in 1839 and marries Clemencia Morán with whom he has 7 children: Simón, Juan Pablo (1846-1897), Juan Manuel, Rosa, Ramón, Jacobo and Francisco. Simón Wohnsiedler studied piano, flute and clarinet with José Eligio Torrealba in Barquismeto. He graduated as a doctor at the University of Caracas 1886, for what was called The Harmonic Doctor. He returned to Barquisimeto and taught English, French, German and music at the First Category College of Barquisimeto and the Colegio San Agustín, founded in 1878 by his brother the priest Juan Pablo, a respected ecclesiastic in the state and also a musician . Only some of his works are known today, such as Geranium waltzes, Arreboles, Gardenias, Clover leaves, Excelsior, Country night, Hiotropo, Muchachito, Amaranto, Ensueño and Do not forget me, as well as the religious marches Goodbye, San Agustín and the Hymn to the Divine Shepherdess, written the year 1906 on the occasion of the fifty-year visit of the Divina Pastora to Barquisimeto. An important part of these works were in the power of Juancho Lucena, who had them among the repertoire of his Orchestra Mavare. One of his waltzes, Muchachito, writes it precisely motivated by the maneuvers that Juancho Lucena had to do as a child to play the double bass. The premiere takes place when a group of musicians, led by Antonio Carrillo, play it in a serenade to the Orfeón Lamas, during the visit of this choral group to the city of Barquisimeto in 1938. In a presentation, two days later in the theater Juares, the Orfeón sings in four-voice version of Vicente Emilio Sojo. The success of the same causes that the interest for this forgotten composer wakes up

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