Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Carlo Curti (1859, Potenza - 1926, Mexico City), also known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian immigrant 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\" (that lasted from 1880 until the 1920s).He also contributed to Mexican society in 1884 by creating one of Mexico's oldest orchestras, the Mexican Typical Orchestra. The orchestra under his leadership represented Mexico at the New Orleans Cotton Exhibition.As with his Spanish Students, Curti dressed his Mexican band in costumes, choosing the charro cowboy outfit. The patriotic value of having Mexico represented on the international stage gave a boost to mariachi bands (which had normally been repressed by social elites); the mariachis began using charro outfits as Curti's orchestra had done, expressing pride in being Mexican. Curti's Orquestra Típica Mexicana has been called the \"predecesor of the Mariachi bands.\"He was an orchestra leader, composer, educator at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexican National Conservatory of Music) , xylophonist, violinist, mandolinist and author of a mandolin method. He was the brother to harpist Giovanni (Juan or John) Curti."@en }
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- Carlo_Curti abstract "Carlo Curti (1859, Potenza - 1926, Mexico City), also known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian immigrant 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\" (that lasted from 1880 until the 1920s).He also contributed to Mexican society in 1884 by creating one of Mexico's oldest orchestras, the Mexican Typical Orchestra. The orchestra under his leadership represented Mexico at the New Orleans Cotton Exhibition.As with his Spanish Students, Curti dressed his Mexican band in costumes, choosing the charro cowboy outfit. The patriotic value of having Mexico represented on the international stage gave a boost to mariachi bands (which had normally been repressed by social elites); the mariachis began using charro outfits as Curti's orchestra had done, expressing pride in being Mexican. Curti's Orquestra Típica Mexicana has been called the \"predecesor of the Mariachi bands.\"He was an orchestra leader, composer, educator at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexican National Conservatory of Music) , xylophonist, violinist, mandolinist and author of a mandolin method. He was the brother to harpist Giovanni (Juan or John) Curti.".