PIAZZOLLA ASTOR, FOR VIOLIN & GUITAR. SHEET MUSIC BOOK IN STANDARD NOTATION.
LIBRO DI MUSICA.
SPARTITI PER CHITARRA E VIOLINO, IN PENTAGRAMMA.
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was the foremost composer and ambassador of tango music, who carried the signature sound of Argentina to clubs and concert halls around the world. This folio gathers 35 of his finest and arranges them for violin and guitar duets. Includes bio. 80 pages
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Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was the foremost composer and ambassador of tango
music, who carried the signature sound of Argentina to clubs and concert halls around
the world.
Piazzolla was born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, on the coast south of Buenos Aires, but
lived in New York City from 1924 to 1937. In New York the young Piazzolla tuned into the
vibrant jazz scene and bandleaders such as Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. At age 12,
he received his first bandoneon, a type of button accordion that is the principal voice
of tango, and began playing music from the classical repertoire. Soon after his family
returned to Argentina in 1937, Piazzolla joined the popular tango orchestra of Anibal
Troilo and-while still a teenager-established himself as a talented bandoneon player
and arranger.
In Argentina, Piazzolla continued to study classical music, too, with the composer
Alberto Ginastera and others. In 1954, Piazzolla's composition "Buenos Aires" won
him a scholarship to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, who encouraged him to
find his own voice by tapping into his passion for tango. Back in Argentina in the
late 1950s, Piazzolla did just that, laying the groundwork for what become known as
tango nuevo-new tango.
In 1960 he formed his seminal group Quinteto Tango uevo, featuring bandoneon
alongside violin, guitar, piano, and bass. In the ensuing years Piazzolla's music increasingly
used dissonance, metrical shifts, counterpoint, and other techniques inspired
by modern classical composition and jazz orchestras. In Argentina, where tango is a
source of national pride and identity, some tango purists were incensed by these radical
departures from tradition, and in the late 1960s even Argentina's military government
criticized Piazzolla for being too avant-garde. Piazzolla left behind a huge body of music-more than 750 works-and classic recordings such as Adios Nonino and Tango:
Zero Hour, as well as collaborations with artists as diverse as poet/author Jorge Luis
Borges (El Tango), jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton (The New Tango), and the Kronos
Quartet (Five Tango Sensations). In 1986, Piazzolla's music was featured in the
Broadway hit Tango Argentino. In 2001 Amadeus Press published Astor Piazzolla: A
Memoir, the remarkable life story (as told to journalist Natalio Gorin) of one of the 20th
century's true musical iconoclasts.
1958 - Adios nonino - Yves Paul Martial Puech, Asto Piazzolla
1957 - Boricua - Astor Piazzolla
1963 - Buenos Aires Hora Cero - Astor Piazzolla
1960 - Calambre - Astor Piazzolla
1960 - Decarisimo - Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Dernier lamento - Roger Auguste, Charles Desbois, Albert Abraham, Ben Soussan, Astor Piazzolla
1957 - Détresse - Astor Piazzolla
1962 - Extasis - Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Fièvre (Fiebre de Tango) - Albert Abraham, Ben Soussan, Albert Noel De Marigny Engeurrand
1963 - Fracanapa - Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Greenwich - Albert Abraham, Ben Soussan, Andre Psieto, Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Gulinay - Astor Piazzolla
1962 - Imàgines 676 - Astor Piazzolla
1963 - racundo - Astor Piazzolla
1960 - La Calle 92 - Astor Piazzolla
1962 - La fin del mundo - Oscar Nicolas Fresedo, Astor Piazzolla
1960 - Las Furias - Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Llueve Sobre Broadway - Raoul Cohzales, Astor Piazzolla
1961 - Los Poseidos - Yves Paul Martial Puech, Astor Piazzolla
1960 - Made In USA - Asto Piazzolla
1957 - Mi Exaltacion - Asto Piazzolla
1957 - Misteriosa VidaGuy Favreau, Astor Piazzolla
1957 - Nuevo Mundo - Astor Piazzolla
1957 - Presentania - Astor Piazzolla
1962 - Psicosis - Astor Piazzolla
1960 - Recuerdo New York - Astor Piazzolla
1963 - Revirado - Astor Piazzolla
1957 - Romantico Idilio (Sans ta presence) - Astor Piazzolla Gay Favreau, Albert Abraham, Ben Soussan,
1964 - Se Termino (C'est fini) - Astor Piazzolla
1957 - Suavidad - Astor Piazzolla
1964 - Tango choc (Doudou) - Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Tanguisimo - Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Te quiero tango - Astor Piazzolla
1962 - Todo Fue - Diana Piazzolla, Astor Piazzolla
1958 - Yo canto un tango - Astor Piazzolla