The Cabeceo

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Lineages

The family tree of orchestras

Who played in whose orchestra, then led their own: 97 leaders, each in the era their own orchestra began. Every link is cited, and a year shows only where a source gives it.

Aníbal Troilo

own orchestra from 1937

Came from

  • → 51932source
  • → 61939–1944source

Came through their orchestra, then led their own

  • → 61939–1944source
  • 1943–1947source
  • 1947–1954source
  • 1953–1958source
  • → 11954–1957source
  • 1959–1968source
  • 1959–1968source
  • 1961–1962source
  • 1962source
  • 1968source

Singers who went on to lead

  • → 11937–1944source
  • 1943–1947source
  • 1943–1948source
  • 1947–1956source
  • 1948–1951source
  • 1950–1955source
  • 1956–1968source
  • 1960–1963source
  • 1962–1965source
Their whole lineage

Choose a leader to see who they came from and who came through their orchestra. The number is how many.

Before 1930

The 1930s

The 1940s

From 1950

Years not cited