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Astor Piazzolla: a tango phenomenon

2021-02-24T12:43:00

Astor_Piazzolla_Astor Piazzolla and his orchestra appeared on Channel 13 in 1963. Photo Archive AGN.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of renowned tango composer Astor Piazzolla’s birth in 2021, Argentine violinists Rafael Gintoli and Gabriela Olcese pay tribute to him and offer basic guidance to violinists on how to interpret tango music

Today, the names Carlos Gardel (1890–1935) and Astor Piazzolla (1921–92) are synonymous with the tango genre for audiences around the world. While Gardel took the incipient Argentine tango to the stages of Paris and New York from the 1920s until his tragic death in 1935, Piazzolla managed to modernise it, thus allowing tango to be definitively accepted in academic music circles and to be included in the contemporary classical repertoire.

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