Carlo Curti, also known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian musician, composer and bandleader. He 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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Advertisement for a December 1880 show that included "Curti's Original Spanish Students"
Mexican Typical Orchestra (La Orquesta Típica de la Ciudad de México) c. 1885. Photo would have been taken while Curti was bandleader, and he has been identified on some websites as sitting on the far right with a bandolón (18 string guitar-sized instrument) leaning against him.
Advertisement for the Mexican Typical orchestra from the Los Angeles Herald, January 21, 1886.
My Irish Home sheet music with music by Carlo Curti and words by Joe A. Burgess, published Chicago, 1882.
Skating by Moonlight sheet music for piano, by Carlos Curti, published New York, 1884 by Emanuel Pergament.
Carlo Curti from his 1896 book, Complete Method for the Mandolin, published by T.B. Harms of New York and London.
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About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1859 to 1922 · aged 63
Written about in
6 languages
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