Joaquim Antonio da Silva Junior (Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, July 11, 1848 - Rio de Janeiro, March 20, 1880) was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and flutist.

Da Silva is considered one of the creators of the choro genre of music. His band, O Choro do Callado, used an ebony flute, two viols and a cavaquinho

Cavaquinho

The cavaquinho is a small string instrument of the European guitar family with four wire or gut strings. It is also called machimbo, machim, machete , manchete or marchete, braguinha or braguinho, or cavaco.The most common tuning is D-G-B-D ; other tunings include D-A-B-E...

, and was noted for facility at improvisation. Da Silva wrote and co-authored many choro

Choro

Choro , traditionally called chorinho , is a Brazilian popular music instrumental style. Its origins are in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. In spite of the name, the style often has a fast and happy rhythm, characterized by virtuosity, improvisation, subtile modulations and full of syncopation and...

es, as a new way of interpreting modinha

Modinha

A modinha is a type of sentimental love song. The modinha is of uncertain origin, but it may have evolved in either Brazil or Portugal. Around the end of 18th Century, Domingos Caldas Barbosa wrote a series of modinhas that were extremely popular, especially in salons, and so can be termed salon...

s, lundus, waltz

Waltz

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es and polka

Polka

The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia...

s. His work was an inspiration to his friend and pupil, Viriato Figueira, and his friend and band member, the female composer Chiquinha Gonzaga

Chiquinha Gonzaga

Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor....

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Works

• Adelaide
• Ai, Que Gozos
• Aurora
• Characteristic Whim
• Capricious
• Carnival of 1867
• Celeste
• Choro
• The Five Goddesses
• As It Is Good
• Conceicao
• Comforter
• Cruzes, Minha Prima!
• The Affected One
• The Desired One
• Ermelinda
• Ernestina
• The Meyer Family
• Fancy for Flute
• Loving Flower
• The Flowers of the Heart
• Florinda
• Hermeneutics
• Honorata
• Iman
• Improvisation
• Isabel
• Laudelina
• Souvenir of the Wharf of Glory
• Language of the Heart
• Fanado Iris
• Characteristic Lundu
• Manuela
• Manuelita
• Maria Carlota
• Mariquinhas
• Mimosa
• I Do Not Say
• What is Good, is Good!
• Pagodeira
• Dangerous
• Bigger Polka in D
• Polucena
• Puladora
• Wanted For All
• Kerosene
• The Return of Chico Triguera
• Rosinha
• Salome
• Saturnine
• Homesickness for the Wharf of Glory
• Homesickness for Inauma
• Saudosa
• The Seducer
• Sousinha
• Sigh
• Sighs of a Maiden
• Last Sigh
• Commercial Union
• Waltz
• August Twenty-first
• June Twenty-first