Juan José Mosalini

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Juan José Mosalini (* 1943 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine bandoneonist and composer.

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Mosalini, who comes from a musical family, began to learn the bandoneon as an autodidact when he was eight . He started playing in the dance halls at the age of thirteen and became a professional musician at the age of seventeen. In 1961 he was awarded first prize in the Nace una estrella music competition on Canal 13 . He began his career in renowned Argentine tango orchestras, with Leopoldo Federico and Osvaldo Pugliese . He also worked with Susana Rinaldi and Astor Piazzolla and founded the avant-garde ensemble Guardia Nueva with Daniel Binelli .

In 1977, like many other artists and intellectuals , he left his home country because of the military dictatorship that had ruled since 1976 and went into exile in Paris . There he founded a trio with the pianist Gustavo Beytelmann and the bassist Patrice Caratini in the early 1980s, which modernized traditional tango in a new arrangement with jazz elements as a variant of Tango Nuevo . In the following years he devoted himself to the further development of bandoneon music as well as the composition of film music and chamber music and orchestral works. As a soloist, he played with numerous renowned symphony and chamber orchestras, such as the Ensemble Modern , with which he performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2002 . He toured with Juraj Galan and Norbert Dömling in the Jazz Meets Tango project . He also founded the Gran Orquesta de Tango , a large formation with which he worked on the history of tango. He was also involved in productions by Irmin Schmidt and Jean-Pierre Mas .

In 1986 he opened a bandoneon school. In the early 1990s he received a professorship in bandoneon at the National Conservatory of Gennevilliers , where he had been teaching since 1989.

In 2011 Mosalini played the final scene of the Swiss feature film Der Verdingbub .

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SURNAME Mosalini, Juan José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian bandoneonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires