In memoriam: Oscar Aleman

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Dear Alemaniacs, admirers of the musical heritage of Oscar Aleman.

Today, October 14th 2005, twenty five years ago, Oscar Aleman passed away in a

hospital in Buenos Aires. He died at the age of 71.

He started his career as a little boy singing and dancing in their family band 'The Moreira Sextet" around 1915, learned to play the cavaquinho at the age of twelve, came to Europe twenty years old and became one of the best guitar players from the 1930s.

When the second world war started he left Europe and started a new

career in Argentina where he became a national star. In the last decade

preceding his decease he was honoured by a selected group of admirers who

still loved him as a person, for his music and his performance.

Now twenty-five years later Oscar hasn't been forgotten. Nearly all his

records are reissued on CD and connoisseurs in guitar music praise his

music. This summer we talked about his Copenhagen recordings, maybe the best

he ever made, and shared the passion for his skill on the guitar and as a

person with Svend Asmussen, a colleague from Oscar of the 1930s. We love to

share this event with you with a preview of an article, that will be

published later in the IAJRC Journal.

Oscar Aleman in Copenhagen

Thank you: Hans Koert, Joergen Larsen, Theo van de Graaff and Luis Contijoch.

El redescubrimiento de Oscar Aleman project

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The article "Oscar Aleman in Copenhagen" is now also available in Spanish. Thanks to Luis Contijoch.

Oscar Aleman in Copenhagen

I send you my warmest congratulations! The article is great. Un gran abrazo, Guillermo Iacona. (Argentina)