In
1923 he became a teacher at the Ecuela Superior de Música,
and was named director of that school in 1936, retiring
in1973, just one year before his death. In 1930, Vicente
Emilio Sojo created the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra and
founded the Orféon Lamas, two of the most prestigious
musical institutions in Venezuela. His work as both a teacher
and researcher was extraordinary and he taught many of the
greatest performers and composers of his country.
Vicente Emilio Sojo composed a large and important corpus
of music including the String quartet in 1913, the Misa
Coral in 1915, the Misa Chromatica and the Misa a Santa
Eduvigis in 1924, the Misa a Santa Efigenia in 1935.
Other religious works : Motets, a Cantata de Navidad, the
Requiem in Memoriam Patris Patriae ; choral and vocal works
; pieces for guitar and piano ; children's songs and numerous
arrangements and harmonisations of traditional, folk and
popular melodies from Venezuela. He worked with devotion
in the research ; compilation and harmonisation of a vast
repertoire of traditional Venezuela music which would otherwise
certainly
