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Astor Piazzolla

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Composer information

Born in:Argentina
Year of Birth:1921
Year of death:1992

Biography

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Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) is one of the most important tango composers in history. Surprisingly, he spent much of his childhood in New York. In 1937 Piazzolla returns to his native Argentina. There he focuses on a career as a classical pianist while playing the accordion in tango cabarets in the evenings. From 1955 he works on his own compositions that interweave these two influences into anmore

Also known as

  • Piazzola
  • Piazzolla
  • A. Piazzolla
  • Astor Piazzola
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