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Carlos Salzedo (6 April 1885 – 17 August 1961) was a French harpist, pianist, composer and conductor.

Life

France

Carlos Salzedo was born Charles Moïse Léon Salzedo on April 6, 1885 in Arcachon, France.

Salzedo's parents, Isaac Gaston Salzedo and Thérèse Judith Anna Salzedo-Silva, who resided in Bayonne, were vacationing in Arcachon when Mme. Salzedo fell down a flight of stairs, causing the two-month premature birth of Salzedo.

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Both parents were of noted Sephardic (Iberian Jewish) families and fine musicians, he a singer, she a pianist. Their first child, Marcel, became a prominent violinist, conductor, and composer of light music. During this time, Mme.

Salzedo was employed as the summer-court pianist to Queen Mother Maria Christina of Spain in Biarritz. Young Léon-Charles played the piano for Maria Christina at the age of three leading her to dub him "my little Mozart." Salzedo's mother died just two years later when h