1. Carlo Curti, known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian musician, composer and bandleader.
16 Facts About Carlo Curti
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Carlo Curti moved to the United States whose most lasting contribution to American society was popularizing the mandolin in American music by starting a national "grass-roots mandolin orchestra craze".
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Carlo Curti contributed to Mexican society in 1884 by creating one of Mexico's oldest orchestras, the Mexican Typical Orchestra.
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The patriotic value of having Mexico represented on the international stage gave a boost to mariachi bands ; the mariachis began using charro outfits as Carlo Curti's orchestra had done, expressing pride in being Mexican.
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Carlo Curti was an orchestra leader, composer, educator at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica, xylophonist, violinist, mandolinist and author of a mandolin method.
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Carlo Curti directed the orchestra at the New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel in his later career.
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Carlo Curti's brother was harpist Giovanni Curti, who was a member of his orchestra.
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Carlo Curti had experience in show business, working with a small traveling opera, along with his brother John.
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Carlo Curti took advantage, figuring that people wouldn't see the difference when he pretended to be Spanish.
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Carlo Curti established a group similar to the Spanish Students, but made up of Italians playing mandolins.
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Carlo Curti later admitted what he had done, and started another group or changed his groups' name to the "Roman Students".
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Carlo Curti took his knowledge of the elaborate costumed performances he had participated in and organized since coming to the United States, and created a new show in Mexico, what became the Orquesta Tipica Mexicana.
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Carlo Curti formed another group called "Orquesta Mexicana Curti" with whom made recordings for Columbia Records in 1905,1906 and 1912.
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Not merely an imitator, Carlo Curti was a multi-instrumental musician and a composer as well.
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Carlo Curti published sheet music as early as 1880 in New York, but published extensively in Mexico.
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Carlo Curti's compositions were recorded 10 times on Victor Records.