Julio César Sanders
{{Short description|Argentinian musician}}
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| name = Julio César Alberto Sanders
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| birth_name = Julio César Alberto Sanders del Valle
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| birth_date = February 13, 1897
| birth_place = Quilmes, Argentina
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| death_date = {{death-date and age|June 10, 1942|February 13, 1897}}
| death_place = Quilmes, Argentina
| genre = tango
| occupation = musician
| instrument = piano
| years_active = 1920–1942
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Julio César Alberto Sanders del Valle (1897–1942) was an Argentine musician who made his career as a pianist and composer of tango.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Parte3|year= 1941|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mStjAAAAIAAJ&dq=Julio+C%C3%A9sar+Sanders+buenos+aires&pg=PA1311|language= |location= |publisher=1941|isbn=}} He was the author of several famous tangos, including Adiós muchachos, composed in 1927 with César Vedani.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, Volumen7|year= 1953|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjAhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA247|language= |location= |publisher=1953|isbn=}}
Biography
He was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, the son of Francisco Alberto Sanders and Paula del Valle, belonging to an Anglo Creole family.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Anuario del tango|year= 1998|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpgNAAAAYAAJ&q=sanders|language= |location= |publisher=Roberto Cassinelli, Raúl Outeda|isbn=9789500510950}} He began his career as a pianist of the Argentine radio by the year 1920. His first worked as an author was "La Inglesita", composed in 1924.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Todo es historia, Números 522-527|year= 2011|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tjivbU_VHsC&q=julio+cesar+Sanders+la+inglesita|language= |location= |publisher=Honegger., 2011|isbn=}} He was also the author of "Viejo patio",{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Discepolín y yo: Memorias transcriptas|year= 1973|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6YNAAAAYAAJ&q=sanders+viejo+patio|language= |location= |publisher=Ediciones La Bastilla, 1973|isbn=}} and "El Piano de los recuerdos", with lyrics of Enrique Cadícamo.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Parte 3|year= 1941|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mStjAAAAIAAJ&dq=julio+cesar+Sanders+enrique+cadicamo+buenos+aires&pg=PA1311|language= |location= |publisher=1941|isbn=}}
His most well-known work Adiós muchachos, was recorded by Carlos Gardel,{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Carlos Gardel: su vida y sus canciones|year= 1991|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=301aAAAAMAAJ&q=adios+muchachos+carlos+gardel+alfredo+le+pera|language= |location= |publisher=Centro Editorial de Estudios Musicales, 1991 |isbn=}} Ignacio Corsini and Agustín Magaldi.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Las mejores letras de tango: antología de doscientas cincuenta letras, cada una con su historia|year= 1998|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vHBdAAAAMAAJ&q=adios+muchachos+agustin+magaldi|language= |location= |publisher=Héctor Ángel Benedetti|isbn=9789507312168}} It also was included in Wonder Bar, a 1934 film directed by Lloyd Bacon.{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|year= 1961|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zEhAQAAIAAJ&dq=adios+muchachos+wonder+bar&pg=PA1830|language= |location= |publisher=1961|isbn=}}
His paternal grandparents were Makinson William Sanders, born in England, and Anne Chartres, a piano teacher born in Ireland. The Sanderses settled with their children in the "English" neighborhood of Quilmes towards the end of the 1880s.{{cite book |last= |first= |date= |title=Argentina, National Census, 1895 |trans-title= |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6SZW-QP5?i=250&cc=1410078|language= |location= |publisher=República Argentina|isbn=}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.todotango.com/creadores/biografia/555/Julio-Cesar-Sanders/ Biografía de Julio César Sanders]
- [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-PBC4-R?i=266&cc=1974184 Matrimonios 1895–1896]
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Category:Argentine male pianists
Category:Argentine tango musicians
Category:Musicians from Buenos Aires
Category:Argentine people of English descent