Carlos Posadas
| Carlos Posadas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 December 1874 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 11 December 1918 (aged 44) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Carlos Posadas was a musician dedicated to Argentine tango in the 19th century.
Carlos Posadas was born in Buenos Aires on 2 December 1874, son of a musician, journalist and soldier Manuel G. Posadas and Emily Smith. He was the brother of Manuel Posadas, who also excelled in the local musical scene and was his first violin teacher, which he carried out with a strong academic training.
Mercedes Sumiza married and had several children: Manuel Carlos (who was a jazz musician), Luis María, Emilia, Haydée, Delia, Adela and Julia. They lived in a house at 280 Talcahuano Street.
While his greatest contribution to music was as a composer, Carlos Posadas joined orchestral groupings devoted to operetta and zarzuela at various times in his short career as a violinist, including Penella's orchestra performing in the Teatro Avenida in 1917.
As a performer he led some tango orchestras, playing the violin or the piano, for carnival dances and on some other stages in the city. As a guitarist, an instrument on which he was a distinguished performer, he performed at the Opera at the famous company of Madame Berthe Rassimi.
Together the brothers Juan José Castro (1895–1968), a leading composer and conductor, and José María Castro, Posadas played frequently in religious services. Juan Jose Castro, who also had been a pupil of his brother Manuel, dedicated to him the tango ¡Qué Titeo!
He also appeared in a trio with Ennio Bolognini (cello) and Pizzapia (piano) in the first movie theaters in the city.
The "Black Posadas" was with other black performers such as Alejandro Vilela, Tiburcio Silbarrio, Rosendo Mendizábal, Harold Phillips and Juan Santa Cruz, one of the regular performers that enlivened so-called "dance schools" and "city cafes", specifically from the dance schools of La Morocha Laura Montserrat and "lo de Hansen".
He was a teacher of many musicians and instrumentalists, including the renowned concert pianist Maria Luisa Anido. Carlos Posadas maintained friendships with renowned tango musicians of the era, such as Juan Bergamino (1875–1959), godfather to his son, Charles, whom he had met in Argentina Guitar Association, violinist Ernesto "El Rengo" Zambonini (with whom he used to meet in the café Marathon, of Costa Rica and Canning) and Juan "Pacho" Maglio (with whom he used to meet in Garibotto of Pueyrredón y San Luis, where his friend was playing around 1910).
With the benefit of academic training, it was often Posadas who translated to a musical notation many of the compositions of his friends, as in the case of Bergamino and sometimes even Maglio.
As a composer he is considered one of the most original authors in the history of tango as a precursor to the current "evolutionary" aesthetic line that later would follow famous performers such as Agustín Bardi, Jose Martínez, Roberto Firpo, Juan de Dios Filiberto and Horacio Salgán.
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