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Astor Piazzolla

Argentine composer, bandoneon player and arranger (1921–1992)

For other uses, see Piazzolla (disambiguation).

Astor Piazzolla

Piazzolla with his bandoneon, 1971

Birth nameAstor Pantaleón Piazzolla
Born(1921-03-11)March 11, 1921
Mar del Plata, Argentina
DiedJuly 4, 1992(1992-07-04) (aged 71)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
GenresTango, nuevo tango
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, arranger
Instrumentbandoneon
Years active1933–1990

Musical artist

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (Spanish:[pjaˈsola], 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. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music".[1]

Biography

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Astor Piazzolla Biography

An extraordinary musician, composer, and bandleader, Astor Piazzolla, the creator of New Tango, was born on March 11, 1921, in Mar del Plata, a seaside city some 248 miles south of Buenos Aires. He was just four years old when the family emigrated to New York City where, but for a brief attempt to return to Argentina, they would live the next 12 years.  

The Lower East Side of Manhattan was then a tough place populated by gangs of seemingly every stripe. Piazzolla, a small kid with a limp, the result of a congenital malformation of his right foot and several surgeries, grew up a never-back-down fighter with a hard left punch. That attitude would serve him well later on, to fight back when some critics and traditionalists took offense to his innovations and attacked him — sometimes even physically. Musically, he grew up listening to the tango records his father Vicente, nicknamed “Nonino,” played in the evenings after work. But young Astor also heard jazz in Harlem and was surrounded by the sounds of a diverse neighborhood, including klezmer

Astor Piazzolla

Biography

Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionised the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music.

Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1921 to Italian parents, Vicente Nonino Piazzolla and Asunta Manetti.

Astor Piazzolla spent most of his childhood with his family in New York City, where he was exposed to both jazz and the music of JS Bach at an early age.

In 1950 he composed the soundtrack to the film Bólidos de Acero.

In 1953 Piazzolla entered his Buenos Aires Symphony in a composition contest, and won a grant from the French government to study in Paris with the legendary French composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.

Piazzolla returned from New York to Argentina in 1955, formed the Octeto Buenos Aires with Enrico Mario Francini and Hugo Baralis on violins, Atilio Stampone on piano, Leopoldo Federico as second bandoneon, Horacio Malvicino on electric guitar, José Bragato on cello and Juan Vasallo on do

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