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Como se muere de amor

Music by Daniel Alvarez, lyrics by Daniel Alvarez. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1933–1964.
1933: 1 · danced 0 times1943: 1 · danced 30 times1963: 1 · danced 0 times1964: 1 · danced 0 times
1933’40’50’601964
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1933: 1, 0; 1943: 1, 30; 1963: 1, 0; 1964: 1, 0

  1. Alfredo De Angelis recorded it in 1943 and 1964.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Como se muere de amor was composed by Daniel Alvarez.†† The lyrics of Como se muere de amor are by Daniel Alvarez.†

Credit

Music
Daniel Alvarez
Lyrics
Daniel Alvarez

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

1930’40’50’60

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

  1. Alfredo De AngelisMost dancedFloreal Ruiz, Nestor Rodi · Odeon · Nov 4
    30 dances
    1943
  2. Alfredo De AngelisRoberto Mancini · Odeon · Mar 24
    Not danced on film yet
    1964
  3. Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdFernando Díaz · RCA Victor · Sep 7
    Not danced on film yet
    1933
  4. José BassoFloreal Ruiz · Music Hall
    Not danced on film yet
    1963

Lyrics

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En una casita blanca con ventanal al jardín, se oye muy suave, a lo lejos, la armonía de un violín. Es una casita blanca, una mesita, una flor, varias sillas distraídas que contemplan aburridas a un enfermito de amor. Eternamente, una sonrisa, por su boca se desliza impregnada de dolor. Y en su mirada serena y pura, hay un libro de amargura y una novela de amor. Luego, misteriosamente, llega hasta allí una mujer y con un beso en la frente vuelca todo su querer... Todos han enmudecido y contemplan con dolor en el frío rostro de ella donde está impresa la huella del que se muere de amor... Y los violines en un suspiro van diciendo: 'Yo me inspiro en un poema de ilusión', muy quedamente cual si temiesen que sus trinos ofendiesen el ritmo de una oración.

English · machine translation

In a little white house with a window to the garden, you can hear very softly, in the distance, the harmony of a violin. It is a little white house, a small table, a flower, several distracted chairs who contemplate bored a little love-sick man. Eternally, a smile, slips through his mouth impregnated with pain. And in her gaze serene and pure, there is a book of bitterness and a novel of love. Then, mysteriously, a woman arrives there and with a kiss on the forehead she pours out all her love... All have fallen silent and contemplate with pain on her cold face where is imprinted the imprint of the one who is dying of love... And the violins in a sigh are saying: 'I am inspired in a poem of illusion', very quietly as if they were afraid that their trills would offend the rhythm of a prayer.

Danced to it

Music from 1933–1964 · danced on film 2010–2025

20102025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2010: 3, 2011: 3, 2012: 2, 2013: 3, 2014: 1, 2015: 4, 2016: 1, 2017: 2, 2018: 1, 2019: 3, 2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2024: 3, 2025: 1

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