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Histoire du Tango is a composition by tango composer Ástor Piazzolla, originally scored for flute and guitar in 1985 and published in 1986. [1] It is one of the most famous compositions by Piazzolla and is often played with different combinations, including violin or double bass substituted for the flute, and piano, harp or marimba substituted for the guitar.
In Argentina, the word Tango seems to have first been used in the 1890s. In 1902, the Teatro Opera started to include tango in their balls. [11] Initially tango was just one of the many dances practiced locally, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands ...
These included Tango Suite for the virtuoso guitar duo Sergio and Odair Assad; Histoire du Tango, where a flutist and guitarist tell the history of tango in four chunks of music styled at thirty-year intervals; and La Camorra, a suite in three ten-minute movements, inspired by the Neapolitan crime family and exploring symphonic concepts of ...
The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, also known as the Estaciones Porteñas or The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, are a set of four tango compositions written by Ástor Piazzolla, which were originally conceived and treated as different compositions rather than one suite, although Piazzolla performed them together from time to time.
In 1998, Zalko published his first book about tango, Paris – Buenos Aires, Un Siècle de Tango [6] (published by Éditions du Félin ), [7] in which he documented the music, dance, lyrics, and culture of tango, and the relationship it created between the cities of Paris and Buenos Aires. In the book, Zalko argues that tango had to become ...
Octeto Buenos Aires promotional photo. The Octeto Buenos Aires was a legendary tango group formed in 1955 by the Argentine bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla.In 1958 the Octeto was disbanded and Piazzolla returned to New York City with his family where he struggled to make a living as a musician and arranger in the next stage of his career that would prove to be so ground-breaking in the history ...
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. [1]
Piazzolla's Orquesta Típica, also known as the 1946 Orchestra, was a tango orchestra formed in 1946 in Buenos Aires by the Argentine bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla.This was Piazzolla's first orchestra of his own and from this spring board he would later go on to pioneer a new approach to the genre with his Octeto Buenos Aires.