Legacy
Torrealba made some 130 recordings, and wrote more than 300 compositions. He has received 45 national and international awards and was nominated among the 100 top Latin American Personalities of the twentieth century, also was designated honorary professor of the Military Academy of Venezuela and Cultural Heritage of Universal Music by the government of Meta Department in Colombia. At the Mexican city of Xalapa there is a plaza, a street and a park with his name. On May 10, 2007, the Luis Alfonzo Larrain foundation, made at the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, a tribute to this Venezuelan, by his trajectory and 90th anniversary, like bastion of the Venezuelan traditions.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)