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Cuatro Compases

Music by Atilio Bruni, lyrics by Oscar Rubens. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1942.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1942

  1. Miguel CalóRaúl Berón1942
  2. Ricardo TanturiAlberto Castillo1942

Versions of Cuatro Compases recorded 1942

Cuatro Compases is a tango.

Cuatro Compases was published in 1942.

Cuatro Compases was composed by Atilio Bruni.

The lyrics of Cuatro Compases are by Oscar Rubens.

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

44 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Atilio Bruni
Words
Oscar Rubens
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Buena como nadie, linda como el sol, reinaba por su pinta en el salón. Bailando un tango nació nuestro romance, mientras la orquesta tocaba estos compases. Cuatro compases que alegraron mi triste corazón con un divino amor. Tango milongón, suave y , que puso el encanto entre mis brazos. Hoy, junto al calor de su tierno amor enterré la angustia de un fracaso. Ya no lloro la maldad de aquélla; ¡ahora vivo tan feliz con ella! Suena bandoneón, que mi corazón quiere esos compases recordar. Buena como nadie, linda como el sol, me trajo la alegría de su amor. Se ha iluminado de nuevo el alma mía al son de un tango que escucho todavía. Cuatro compases milongueros que fueron la emoción de un nuevo y dulce amor.

English · machine translation

Good as anyone, pretty as the sun, she reigned by her looks in the salon. Dancing a tango our romance was born, while the orchestra played these bars. Four bars that gladdened my sad heart with a divine love. Tango milongón, soft and compadrón, that put the charm between my arms. Today, next to the warmth of his tender love I buried the anguish of a failure. I no longer mourn the wickedness of that one; now I live so happily with her! Bandoneon sounds, that my heart wants to remember those bars. Good as no one, beautiful as the sun, She brought me the joy of her love. My soul has been illuminated again to the sound of a tango I still listen to. Four milonguero bars that were the emotion of a new and sweet love.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1942 to 1942.
1940
Recordings of Cuatro Compases 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 · 1 more we know of

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

The leader is Miguel Caló, 1942, with 68% of the 44 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  1. Miguel CalóMost dancedCuatro CompasesMiguel CalóRaúl BeróntangoOdeon
    30 dances · 68%
    1942
  2. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdCuatro CompasesRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor
    14 dances · 32%
    1942
  3. Miguel CalóNot in our catalogueRaúl Berón1963
All recordings of Cuatro Compases

One recording

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

Miguel Caló

Cuatro CompasesMiguel CalóRaúl BeróntangoOdeon

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 30 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1942 · danced on film 2008–2023

20082023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 1, 2009: 3, 2010: 2, 2012: 2, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 2, 2016: 1, 2017: 1, 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2023: 2

Where it is danced

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

  1. Club GricelSan Cristóbal
    1 performance
  2. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    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 4 complete sets on film

  1. Mariano Bielak and Paula Gurini

    In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Cuatro CompasesRicardo Tanturi, 1942
    2. 2Yunta de oroColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez), 2003
    3. 3Sacale puntaEdgardo Donato, 1938
    4. 4Bajo un cielo de estrellasMiguel Caló, 1941
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Alper Özdemir and Ilgın Teti̇kcan

    2015 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Yunta de oroColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez), 2003
    2. 2Cuatro CompasesMiguel Caló, 1942
    3. 3InfamiaJuan D'Arienzo, 1941
    4. 4Que tiempo aquelFrancisco Lomuto, 1938
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Eugenia Eberhardt and Sebastian Posadas

    2009 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Canción de rangoRodolfo Biagi, 1943
    2. 2La guiñadaAdolfo Carabelli, 1932
    3. 3Cuatro CompasesRicardo Tanturi, 1942
    Watch it on TangoTube

Read more

every sentence cites a published fact

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/1807

tango.info · Z0000060518

MusicBrainz · 4a192e17-2d56-48f0-aee3-a3187414ceb2source

Is a1

Is a Tango

Published1

Published 1942

Composer1

Composed by Atilio Bruni

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Oscar Rubens

Listen

  1. Cuatro CompasesRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor
  2. Cuatro CompasesMiguel CalóRaúl BeróntangoOdeon

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