Tzigane tango astor piazzolla biography

When Astor Piazzolla died in , he was not much appreciated in his native Argentina. The tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger, although well-known the world over, had stirred up a great deal of controversy with his music.

The traditional tango world was still predominant in his home country at the time of his death twenty-five years ago, and he was a rebel.

Tzigane tango astor piazzolla biography summary

“He was hated because he broke a paradigm,” says María Susana Azzi, “and he changed that paradigm.”

Mrs Azzi is the co-author of Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla, a detailed biography that may represent the most comprehensive work about the composer’s life and work to date.

Surprisingly, the book first appeared in the year in English, published as a hardcover edition (it was a few years before e-books became common) by Oxford University Press. It says a lot about Piazzolla’s reputation in Argentina that a Spanish edition was published only later after many translations into other languages had a