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Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (Spanish:, Italian: [pjatˈtsɔlla]; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango , incorporating elements from jazz and classical music .
In 1996-1998, the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov made a new arrangement of the above four pieces with a more obvious link between Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' and Piazzolla's, by converting each of Piazzolla's movements into three-sections, and arranges the piece for solo violin and string orchestra. In each movement, Desyatnikov includes ...
Recorded in New York City in 1987, the album was produced by Kip Hanrahan and Piazzolla. [5] [6] Its music was originally developed as a theater performance about the history of the tango. [7] Piazzolla, who played the bandoneon, recorded the album with his Quinteto Tango Nuevo. [8] [9] Paquito D'Rivera played saxophone on Rough Dancer. [10]
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.
Libertango is a composition by tango composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla, recorded and published in 1974 in Milan. The title is a portmanteau merging "Libertad" (Spanish for "liberty") and "tango", symbolizing Piazzolla's break from classical tango to tango nuevo.
This news, coupled with the tour's failure, economic problems and homesickness, led Piazzolla to depression. There after receiving such devastating news he composed this work in about 30 minutes as a tribute to his father, based on "Nonino", another tango Astor had composed five years earlier in Paris, also dedicated to Vicente Piazzolla.
Conjunto 9 (a.k.a. Noneto) was a tango ensemble set up by Ástor Piazzolla which was active between 1971 and 1972.. The short-lived ensemble was based on Piazzolla’s first Quinteto, comprising Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon), Osvaldo Manzi (later Osvaldo Tarantino (piano), Antonio Agri (violin), Oscar López Ruiz (electric guitar) and Kicho Díaz (double bass).
La Camorra is the name of a three-movement suite for tango ensemble composed by Ástor Piazzolla.It was inspired by the Neapolitan criminal organization Camorra and represents Piazzolla's most ambitious compositional statement in length and large-scale musical form, though not in harmony or timbre.