Thursday, December 15, 2011

G.H. Matos Rodríguez - Tango 'La Cumparsita'#77

G.H. Matos Rodríguez - Tango 'La Cumparsita'

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897 - 1948) was an Uruguayan singer and composer. He studied architecture, but the music was very strong attraction. Montevideo, a tavern owned by his father. Plus, many tangos, he writes music for theatrical plays, Buenos Aires that is open, and he headed for his own tango orchestra.

Argentina and Uruguay as well as a dance of tango dances born to immigrants from European and African. The birth place of tango, Buenos Aires tangos early immigrants in the film was considered. Was associated with a lower class of the tango, and the seamy bordellos, and other places, the history of American song from hearing it may be very similar. It eventually became the main stream entertainment and achieved worldwide popularity after WW I. Read more here about the history of tango.

Rodríguez La Cumparsita composed when he was 18 years in 1916. It is the most recognizable tango ever written. Title: a little parade, and it is translated from the Uruguayan carnival in March as a single piano, was written as an assistant. The music written for a different set of words, the most popular set at the beginning, with his "little parade of endless suffering ..."