Gonsalves found his first job in the city as a violinist in the group of the composer
Naushad in 1943. He taught Pyarelal Sharma of
Laxmikant–Pyarelal team and has worked with most of the legendary composers of the 1950s and 1960s. A few examples of his work are
B.R. Chopra (
Naya Daur,
Waqt),
Naushad (
Dillagi), and
Chetan Anand (
Haqeeqat). The song "
My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves" was Pyarelal's tribute to his violin teacher. In 1958, Gonsalves founded the Indian Symphony Orchestra (as distinct from the
Symphony Orchestra of India) featuring
playback singers
Lata Mangeshkar and
Manna Dey as soloists, the works were performed in the quadrangle of
St. Xavier's College, Bombay. In 1965, Gonsalves quit the film industry and went to the United States, via a travelling grant from
Syracuse University in New York. He became a member of the
American Society of Composers, Publishers and Authors, and later in returned to India, settled in his ancestral village of
Majorda in
Goa, and continued composing music, though he never joined the Hindi films again. He died in 2012 of
pneumonia and
hypotension. ==Music arrangement in Indian movies==