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La luz de un fósforo

Music by Alberto Suárez Villanueva, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1943–1969.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1943

  1. Aníbal TroiloAlberto Marino1943
  2. Horacio SalganEdmundo Rivero1969

Versions of La luz de un fósforo recorded 1943–1969

La luz de un fósforo was composed by Alberto Suárez Villanueva.

La luz de un fósforo is a tango.

La luz de un fósforo was published in 1943.

The lyrics of La luz de un fósforo are by Enrique Cadícamo.

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

21 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Alberto Suárez Villanueva
Words
Enrique Cadícamo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Nos encontramos, tú y yo, y a conversar nos detuvimos. Un algo raro tenías cuando callabas, cuando reías... La esgrima sentimental al fin surgió la tarde aquella. Después... ¡qué poco quedó! El viento todo lo llevó... La luz de un fósforo fue nuestro amor pasajero. Duró tan poco... lo sé... como el fulgor que da un lucero... La luz de un fósforo fue, nada más, nuestro idilio. Otra ilusión que se va del corazón y que no vuelve más. En todo, siempre el color es del cristal con que se mira. De rosa, yo te veía, cuando callabas, cuando reías. Después, con otro cristal, cambió el color y ya no eras... La vida es toda ilusión y un prisma es el corazón.

English · machine translation

We meet, you and I, and to talk we stopped. There was something strange about you when you were silent, when you laughed... Sentimental fencing finally emerged that afternoon. Afterwards... how little was left! The wind carried it all away... The light of a match was our fleeting love. It lasted as little... I know... as the glow of a star... The light of a match was, nothing more, our idyll. Another illusion that leaves from the heart and never comes back. In everything, always the color is of the glass with which you look at it. In pink, I saw you when you were silent, when you laughed. Later, with a different glass, the color changed and you were no longer... Life is all illusion and a prism is the heart.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1943 to 1969.
1940’50’60
Recordings of La luz de un fósforo by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 7 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedLa luz de un fósforoAníbal TroiloAlberto MarinotangoRCA Victor
    21 dances
    1943
  2. Horacio SalganLa luz de un fósforoHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilips
    No match yet
    1969
  3. Ruth DuranteNot in our catalogue1965
  4. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · May 71970
  5. Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogueMar 71981
  6. Floreal RuízNot in our catalogue
  7. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  8. Ruth DuranteNot in our catalogue
  9. María VolontéNot in our catalogue
All recordings of La luz de un fósforo

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Aníbal Troilo

La luz de un fósforoAníbal TroiloAlberto MarinotangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 19 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1943–1969 · danced on film 2015–2024

20152024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2015: 1, 2016: 2, 2017: 3, 2018: 1, 2019: 1, 2022: 2, 2024: 2

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance

Filmed sets

One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.

3 of 5 complete sets on film

  1. Carlitos Espinoza and Noelia Hurtado

    2016 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1De pura cepaAníbal Troilo, 1942
    2. 2Cabeza de noviaJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    3. 3La luz de un fósforoAníbal Troilo, 1943
    4. 4ChiquéOsvaldo Pugliese, 1953
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Aldana Silveyra and Diego Ortega

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1ContratiempoAníbal Troilo, 1952
    2. 2InolvidableJuan D'Arienzo, 1936
    3. 3La luz de un fósforoAníbal Troilo, 1943
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Karina Colmeiro and Rodrigo Palacios

    2019 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Sin rumbo fijoTípica Victor, 1938
    2. 2Que Dios te ayudeJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    3. 3La luz de un fósforoAníbal Troilo, 1943
    Watch it on TangoTube

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Alberto Suárez Villanueva

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/509

tango.info · T0370205836

MusicBrainz · dcc052a1-4913-40e2-9f44-175ff2909299source

Is a1

Is a Tango

Published1

Published 1943

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

Listen

  1. La luz de un fósforoAníbal TroiloAlberto MarinotangoRCA Victor
  2. La luz de un fósforoHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilips

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