Rosario Marciano, born July 5, 1944, in Caracas, Venezuela, died there September 4, 1998, was a classical pianist, musicologist and teacher.
She gave her first solo concert at the age of six and her first concert with orchestra at nine [1] Having completed her studies in her native country she went to Austria where she continued them under the guidance of Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus, Alfred Brendel and Hans Kann.
Her extensive discography also includes recordings of rarely heard works by women composers, including Cécile Chaminade's Concertstück for piano and Orchestra, Op 40, Germaine Tailleferre's Ballade for piano & orchestra, as well as works by Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Amy Beach, Teresa Carreño, Clara Schumann and Ingeborg von Bronsart, Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch, Fanny Mendelssohn and Maria Agata Szymanowska.
The Museo del Teclado in Caracas accommodating her piano collection of historic instruments, was founded by her.
1994-1998, she was a professor for piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.