Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (born 1853)

Teresa Carreño

Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor (1853–1917)

María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, soprano, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pianist and was often referred to as the "Valkyrie of the Piano". Carreño was…