Carreño, Teresa (EN)

Carreño Maria Teresa, *22 December 1853 Caracas, †12 June 1917 New York, granddaughter of Cayetan Carreño, Venezuelan pianist, singer (soprano), composer and conductor. She began her musical training with her father, Manuel Antonio Carreño; she studied piano from around 1861 with L.M. Gottschalk in New York, and subsequently with G. Mathias and A. Rubinstein in Paris (1866–70); she studied singing in Boston (1876). In 1862, she made her public debut with a piano recital at Irving Hall in New York; she gave concerts as a pianist, singer and conductor in Spain, the USA and Venezuela. Between 1870 and 1874 she was active in England; in 1872 she appeared in the role of the Queen in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots at the opera in Edinburgh. She became famous as a pianist in 1889 following performances in Berlin; she then embarked on major piano tours across Europe (in 1891 she gave concerts in Warsaw) and Australia (1907). Until 1914 she lived in Berlin, where she was also involved in teaching. In 1917 she retired from active artistic life. She was married four times: in 1873 to the violinist E. Sauret, in 1876 to the baritone G. Tagliapietra (manager of the opera orchestra in Caracas, which she conducted), from 1892 to 1895 to E. d’Albert, and in 1902 to A. Tagliapietra, the younger brother of her second husband.

Literature: J.B. Plaza Teresa Carreño, Caracas 1938; M. Milinowski By the Grace of God, New York 1940, reprint 1977; I. Peña Teresa Carreño, Caracas 1953; C.C. Travieso Teresa Carreño, Caracas 1953; A. Marquez Rodriguez Esbozo biografico de Teresa Carreño, Caracas 1953.