Composers

Composers the orchestras favoured

Whose music each orchestra recorded most, period by period. A cell is the composer’s share of the orchestra’s recordings in that period; open it to hear them.

Share of the period’s recordings2%8%16%25%+peak

Julio De Caro’s own music was 55% of what the orchestra recorded in The comeback, 1949–1954.

Recorded in 19 of the 47 periods. A deeper colour is a larger share of the period; the gold box is the peak.

D'Arienzo

Di Sarli

Troilo

Pugliese

Caló

Tanturi

D'Agostino

Laurenz

Biagi

Fresedo

Canaro

Lomuto

De Caro

D'ArienzoDi SarliTroiloPuglieseCalóTanturiD'AgostinoLaurenzBiagiFresedoCanaroLomutoDe Caro

Anselmo AietaPeak: 2% of Canaro, Early recordings

Enrique Santos DiscepoloPeak: 12% of D'Arienzo, Sexteto

Gerardo Matos RodríguezPeak: 7% of D'Arienzo, Sexteto

Osvaldo FresedoPeak: 24% of Fresedo, With Ray

Francisco PracánicoPeak: 2% of Canaro, With Maida

Carlos GardelPeak: 6% of Lomuto, With Omar

Agustín BardiPeak: 6% of D'Arienzo, With Biagi

Vicente GrecoPeak: 5% of D'Arienzo, With Biagi

Pedro LaurenzPeak: 30% of Laurenz, Victor years

Eduardo ArolasPeak: 10% of D'Arienzo, Faster with Polito

Enrique DelfinoPeak: 9% of Biagi, First orchestra

Francisco CanaroPeak: 21% of Canaro, Later years

Rodolfo SciammarellaPeak: 8% of Lomuto, With Omar and Díaz

Héctor StamponiPeak: 6% of Caló, Orchestra of the stars

Luis RubisteinPeak: 5% of Caló, Orchestra of the stars

Roberto FirpoPeak: 6% of Di Sarli, Energetic

Enrique CadícamoPeak: 5% of D'Agostino, With Vargas

Sebastián PianaPeak: 3% of Troilo, Energetic

Francisco LomutoPeak: 16% of Lomuto, With Rivera

José RazzanoPeak: 6% of Lomuto, With Rivera

Pedro MaffiaPeak: 7% of Pugliese, Early years

Catulo CastilloPeak: 4% of Troilo, Sentimental

Mariano MoresPeak: 6% of Troilo, Sentimental

Julio De CaroPeak: 55% of De Caro, The comeback

Miguel BucinoPeak: 4% of D'Arienzo, Salamanca in the 50s

Juan de Dios FilibertoPeak: 4% of Di Sarli, The return

Carlos Di SarliPeak: 18% of Di Sarli, Calm and grand

Manuel SucherPeak: 5% of Di Sarli, Calm and grand

Aníbal TroiloPeak: 17% of Troilo, Late years

Armando PontierPeak: 7% of Troilo, Late years

Juan Carlos CobianPeak: 4% of Troilo, Late years

Osvaldo PugliesePeak: 12% of Pugliese, Late years

No cited composer

Of the 5,273 recordings in these 47 periods of 13 orchestras, 82% have a cited composer; a recording whose song has none counts in no row. The gaps are early: Juan D'Arienzo, Sexteto (1928–1929): 37%; Francisco Canaro, Early recordings (1915–1926): 52%; Julio De Caro, The sextet (1923–1934): 60%.

Each composer credit is cited on its song’s page; the periods are Tangopedia’s orchestra periods. Rows: the 32 composers recorded at least twice in six or more of these periods, in the order their peak began.

Composers the orchestras favoured

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