Juan Jose Mosalini, a tango figure who lived for decades in France.
Argentine composer and bandoneonist Juan José Mosalini, who had excellent local touring as a participant in the orchestras of José Basso, Horacio Salgán and Osvaldo Pugliese, has died in the last few hours at the age of 78 in France, where he lives, reported the National Academy of Tango.
“With great sadness we have received the news of the death of our Honorary Academician Master Juan José Mosalini, which took place in France on the afternoon of Friday, May 27, 2022, the institution published via a post on social networks.
Juan José Mosalini, at a tribute to Piazzolla, in 2002. Photo: AFP
“The Master -he added- who has a great trajectory in our country, is the founder in France of the bandoneon chair which has been a unique school for the new spread of the genre in Europe since the eighties”.
His biography
Born to José C. Paz on November 29, 1943, Mosalini he inherited the passion for bandoneon from his father and grandfatherwho also played it and motivated him to start his apprenticeship at 8. By the age of 13, he was already playing in classrooms as part of a tango orchestra.
He played with Osvaldo Pugliese, Horacio Salgán, Astor Piazzolla, Leopoldo Federico, José Basso, among others, and in 1977 he lived in Paris to leave the civic-military dictatorship.
“Although I worked very well in Pugliese, the massive repression that reached all layers reached me for my participation in the Musicians’ Union and for my adherence to the Peronist Youth, although neither of the two activities were secret,” he recalls a talk with Télam in 2019, on the occasion of his visit to Argentina for a series of presentations at the CCK and at the Usina del Arte Tango Festival.
Mosalini in paying tribute to Piazzolla for her 100th birthday. He played in the “Piazzolla Sinfónico” concert, with the Stable Orchestra of the Teatro Colón. Press Photo Teatro Colón @ Máximo Parpagnoli.
The union with Spinetta
In 1977, Spinetta released an album classic in Argentine rock: The Garden of Gifts, from his group Invisible. Doon deepens the fusion of rock with jazz and tangoeven added bandoneonists Rodolfo Mederos and Juan José Mosalini as special guests.
In Mosalini’s case, he played good memory bookOh The swallows of the Plaza de Mayotwo songs that went down in history for their emotional music and lyrics.
The legendary album “The garden of those present”, by Invisible, the Spinetta group in which Mosalini played as a guest.
His work in France
Mosalini arrived in Paris on April 1, 1977, to participate in an album by Chango Farías Gómez called Tears and soon thereafter he began his solo career there, with the help of musicians such as accordionist Marcel Azzola.
A few years later, Mosalini created the first bandoneon chair in Europe at the conservatory in Gennevilliers, a northern suburb of Paris.
But in addition to his development and dissemination of the work, Mosalini rushes to the stages and recordings showcasing his deep, precise, refined style that he combined with Gustavo Beytelman, Enzo Gieco and Tomás Gubitsch, among others. , which formed the Tiempo Argentino groups and later the Cuarteto Canyengue.
Juan José Mosalini in 2009.
Many albums and works match his time in Europe, such as Tango strikethe milonga laging milonga and the candombe New San Telmoall three in collaboration with Daniel Binelli).
As a result of his experience on both sides of the Atlantic, where he collaborated with Argentina’s greatest tango figures but also interacted with talented musicians of other nationalities, and perhaps with the pleasure of having contributed to the expansion of genre, Mosalini assured there for 2019: “Tango no longer needs a passport to achieve a result”.
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Source: Clarin
