Astor Piazzolla | Argentine composer, and virtuosic bandoneón player, Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionized traditional tango, to create a hybrid genre known as, “nuevo tango.”
Astor Piazzolla, was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1921, and moved with his family to New York City at a young age.
When his father bought him a bandoneón, an Argentine accordion-like instrument, that is essential to the tango sound, he quickly became known as a child prodigy, and wrote his first tango at 11.
In 1937, he returned to Argentina, where traditional tango still reigned supreme.
Once home, Piazzolla actually gave up tango, to study classical music, and become a modernist classical composer.
He traveled to Paris on a scholarship, to apprentice under eminent French composer, Nadia Boulanger, who prepared him for his next return home in 1955.
Back in Argentina, he applied years of classical study to the tango sound, and formed his band, “Octeto Buenos Aires.” Coined as the “nuevo tango,” Piazolla's fresh take.......
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