Ana Rugeles
Venezuelan composer and music educator (1914–2012)
Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles (8 August 1914 – 21 April 2012) was a Venezuelan composer and music educator. She produced programs for the National Radio of Venezuela and was a founding member of the Little Mavare Orchestra, the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela and the Venezuelan Association of Authors and Composers.
Career
Rugeles was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She studied music at the Jose Angel Lamas Music School in Caracas; the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; and in Buenos Aires, Geneva, Switzerland, and Paris. Her teachers included Jacobo Ficher, Franco Medina, Ascanio Negretti, and Vicente Emilio Sojo. She married Manuel Felipe Rugeles, a poet and Venezuelan diplomat, and they had a son, the conductor Alfredo Rugeles.
During the 1950s, Rugeles accompanied her husband to diplomatic postings in Argentina, the United States, and Venezuela. She was a teacher and the director of the Juan Olivares Music School from 1953 to 1975, and from 1953 to 1964 also produced radio programs for the National Radio of Venezuela. She was the academic director of the Simon Bolivar Venezuelan Youth Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1986.
Awards
Rugeles’ awards included:
1946 Second Prize in the Venezuelan Romantic Style Song Contest, Ministry of Communications for the song “Plenitude”
1955 First Prize in the II Venezuelan Music Contest for the song “Woodpecker”
1993 National Council of Culture’s (CONAC) Musical Teaching Award.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ana Rugeles” as venezuelan composer and music educator (1914–2012). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as venezuelan composer and music educator (1914–2012). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q482978. VIAF identifies the subject as 40812823. The Library of Congress control number is n85157979. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 2012, 1953 and 1975.
Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Ana Rugeles”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Ana Rugeles primary sources, Ana Rugeles archive and Rugeles research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ana Rugeles”?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
- Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Ana Rugeles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.