Raúl Kaplún (November 11, 1910 - January 23, 1990
) (born Israel Kaflún) was a well-known tango violinist, director and composer.
Biography
Raúl Kaplún was born in
Balvanera
Balvanera is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Origin of name and alternative names
The official name, Balvanera, is the name of the ''parroquia'' (parish) centered around the church of ''Nuestra Señora de Balvanera'', erected ...
, Buenos Aires to an itinerant
Jewish
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hat salesman Leiser Finkel who had immigrated to Argentina from
Bessarabia
Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ...
.
Kaplun was sent to the
cheder of the synagogue on Paso Street, as well as to study the violin from Marcos Sadoski. He later studied with José Fraga and later with the prestigious German .
He was the author of ''Que solo estoy'', ''Canción de rango'', ''Una emoción'' and ''Solitario''.
Kaplun refused to join the
Peronist
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party, and as a result his band was barred from the radio.
He is buried in the in Buenos Aires.
He was one of a group of prominent Jewish tango musicians, including
Szymsia Bajour,
Carlos Aguirre,
Julio Jorge Nelson and Ismael Spitalnik.
References
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Julio Nudler
Julio Nudler (16 December 1941 – 27 July 2005) was an Argentine economic journalist.
Nudler wrote for La Opinión, Clarín and La Razón before he became head of the economics section of Página/12 in 1990. In 2004 an article, in which he i ...
,''Tango judío. Del ghetto a la milonga'', Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1998.
*
Ricardo Feierstein, ''Historia de los judíos argentinos'', Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires, 2006
* ''From Tejano to Tango: Essays on Latin American Popular Music'' edited by Walter Aaron Clark, 2002
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Argentine tango musicians
Jewish Argentine musicians
Argentine people of Polish-Jewish descent
1910 births
1990 deaths
20th-century violinists
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Tango musicians
Argentine violinists
Jewish violinists