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Five ways into tango, from the music up. Every line has its source.
Hear the first oneViejo portón · Rodolfo Biagi, 1938What is tango?
Tango, vals and milonga: the music, the dance and the night
Tango in 10 people
The musicians who made it, one cited line each
1917 Signs with Max Glücksmann's company (Odeon) and records Mi noche triste, his first tango.
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1916 Gives the first performance of La cumparsita at the café La Giralda in Montevideo.
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1924 Introduces a refrain singer to his orchestra, starting with Roberto Díaz.
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1923 Forms his own sextet at the end of the year, then plays afternoons at the Café Colón and on Radio Sudamérica.
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1936 Broadcasts on Radio El Mundo spread the new fast style across the country and make him a national name.
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1937 Debuts his own orchestra at the Marabú, with Orlando Goñi on piano and Francisco Fiorentino singing.
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1939 Back at Victor, records Corazón with Roberto Rufino singing, and Retirao.
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1946 Composes La yumba, the piece that became the emblem of his sound.
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The recordings danced most in the videos we index
- Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi · 1938 · danced in 557 videos
Reliquias porteñasFrancisco Canaro · 1938 · danced in 552 videos- MandriaJuan D'Arienzo · 1939 · danced in 533 videos
Te aconsejo que me olvidesAníbal Troilo · 1941 · danced in 423 videos- PatéticoOsvaldo Pugliese · 1948 · danced in 414 videos
Ella es asíEdgardo Donato · 1938 · danced in 406 videos
La milonga de Buenos AiresQuinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro) · 1947 · danced in 387 videos
Pobre florAlfredo De Angelis · 1946 · danced in 382 videos
Café DomínguezÁngel D'Agostino · 1955 · danced in 374 videos
Pocas palabrasRicardo Tanturi · 1941 · danced in 357 videos
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Buenos Aires in one walk
The story map's tours, stop by stop
- Gardel's Buenos AiresFrom the café table where he sang with Razzano to the vault in Chacarita, in the order his city happened to him.8 stops · 6 min · Walk it
- Where Troilo playedFrom a radio programme in the late 1920s to his wake in 1975: the rooms Pichuco's orchestra filled.7 stops · 6 min · Walk it
- Cabarets of CorrientesThe night rooms around Corrientes and Maipú where the orchestras of the 1920s to the 1950s played until dawn.6 stops · 5 min · Walk it
- Studios and radioWhere tango was broadcast and pressed into records: from the first radio on a theatre terrace to the studio that still records.8 stops · 6 min · Walk it
- 1940s dance hallsWhere Buenos Aires danced in the Golden Age: tearooms downtown, cabaret floors and the clubs of the barrios.8 stops · 5 min · Walk it