Idilio compositor3/18/2024 ![]() ![]() 1 for Violin and Piano and Suite for Strings and Harps. ![]() In 1943 he started piano lessons with the Argentine classical pianist Raúl Spivak, which would continue for the next five years, and wrote his first classical works Preludio No. During his five years of study with Ginastera he mastered orchestration, which he later considered to be one of his strong points. ![]() It was the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, then living in Buenos Aires, who had advised him to study with Ginastera and delving into scores of Stravinsky, Bartók, Ravel, and others, Piazzolla rose early each morning to hear the Teatro Colón orchestra rehearse while continuing a gruelling performing schedule in the tango clubs at night. By 1941 he was earning a good wage, enough to pay for music lessons with Alberto Ginastera, an eminent Argentine composer of classical music. Apart from playing the bandoneon, Piazzolla also became Troilo's arranger and would occasionally play the piano for him. Piazzolla was employed as a temporary replacement for Toto Rodríguez who was ill, but when Rodríguez returned to work Troilo decided to retain Piazzolla as a fourth bandoneonist. Inspired by Vardaro's style of tango, and still only 17 years old, Piazzolla moved to Buenos Aires in 1938 where, the following year, he realized a dream when he joined the orchestra of the bandoneonist Aníbal Troilo, which would become one of the greatest tango orchestras of that time. Vardaro's novel interpretation of tango made a great impression on Piazzolla and years later he would become Piazzolla's violinist in his Orquesta de Cuerdas (String Orchestra) and his First Quintet. In 1936, he returned with his family to Mar del Plata, where he began to play in a variety of tango orchestras and around this time he discovered the music of Elvino Vardaro’s sextet on the radio. In later years Piazzolla jokingly made light of this fateful event: had his father let him join the tour, Piazzolla would have played the harp instead of the bandoneon. The disappointment of being forbidden to join the tour proved to be fortunate, as it was on this tour in 1935 that Gardel and his entire orchestra perished in a plane crash. Much to Piazzolla's dismay, his father decided that he was not old enough to go along. Gardel invited the young bandoneon player to join him on his tour. In 1934 he met Carlos Gardel, one of the most important figures in the history of tango, and played a cameo role as a paper boy in his movie El día que me quieras. ![]() The following year he took music lessons with the Hungarian classical pianist Béla Wilda, a student of Rachmaninoff who taught him to play Bach on his bandoneon. In 1932 Piazzolla composed his first tango, "La Catinga". Īfter their return to New York City from a brief visit to Mar del Plata in 1930, the family moved to Little Italy in lower Manhattan. He began to play the bandoneon after his father spotted one in a New York pawn shop in 1929. At home he would listen to his father's records of the tango orchestras of Carlos Gardel and Julio de Caro, and was exposed to jazz and classical music, including Bach, from an early age. His parents worked long hours and Piazzolla soon learned to take care of himself on the streets despite having a limp. In 1925 Astor Piazzolla moved with his family to Greenwich Village in New York City, which in those days was a violent neighbourhood inhabited by a volatile mixture of gangsters and hard-working immigrants. His mother was the daughter of two Italian immigrants from Lucca in the central region of Tuscany. His paternal grandfather, a sailor and fisherman named Pantaleo (later Pantaleón) Piazzolla, had immigrated to Mar del Plata from Trani, a seaport in the southeastern Italian region of Apulia, at the end of the 19th century. Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1921, the only child of Italian immigrant parents, Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla and Assunta Manetti. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music". A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla ( Spanish:, Italian: Ma– July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. ![]()
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