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Joaquim Callado
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Joaquim Callado · Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado Júnior was a Brazilian composer and flautist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1848, where he also died in 1880. He is regarded as one of the creators of the choro, a style of Brazilian urban music that arose in the nineteenth century. His name is also spelled with one l, Calado.
Music and breakthrough
His group, O Choro do Callado, played with an ebony flute, two guitars and a cavaquinho, a small guitar-like instrument. The band was known for its ease in improvising. Callado wrote, and co-wrote, many choros, a new way of playing modinhas, lundus, waltzes and polkas. His titles show how varied that work was: Adelaide, Ai, Que Gozos, Aurora, Carnival of 1867 and Celeste.
Influence
In the history of Brazilian music he is a starting point. He showed how European dances such as the waltz and the polka acquired a form of their own in Rio, with flute, guitars and improvisation. Anyone who wants to understand Brazil's later urban music sooner or later ends up at the choro.
Listening
Mentioned in other articles
- Choro Genre
Around 1870 the flautist Joaquim Callado in Rio de Janeiro played European dances such as the polka, the waltz and the schottische with a small group of flute, two guitars and a cavaquinho, but in a Brazilian way, with rhythms from the Afro-Brazilian lundu.