Tango around the world
Chapter 1 of 22 · 1807–2009
Montevideo
Tango's other shore, where La Cumparsita was first played.
Montevideo
A dancer's tour
- Noelia Hurtado
- Carlitos Espinoza
- Jonathan Saavedra
- Clarisa Aragón
- Maria Inés Bogado
- Sebastian Jimenez
- Pablo Rodriguez
- Fernando Sanchez
- Ariadna Naveira
- Corina Herrera
- Ruben Veliz
- Christian Marquez
- Sabrina Veliz
- Javier Rodríguez
- Ines Muzzopappa
- Virginia Gomez
- Mariano Chicho Frúmboli
- Agustina Piaggio
- Facundo Piñero
- Magdalena Gutiérrez
- Vanesa Villalba
- Sebastián Arce
- Juana Sepulveda
- Pancho Martinez Pey
- Federico Naveira
- Gustavo Rosas
- Maximiliano Cristiani
- Julio Balmaceda
- Moira Castellano
- Fabián Peralta
The word came early to Montevideo. A resolution of the Cabildo of 26 September 1807 is indexed in the Actas Capitulares under "tango", then a synonym of "tambo" for places where Black people danced.1 The tango took root in the now-vanished Calle Yerbal, in the barrio sur of the Ciudad Vieja and in the barrio Goes.1
On 19 April 1917, at the Confitería La Giralda on Plaza Independencia, Roberto Firpo and his orchestra played La Cumparsita in public for the first time, a tango by the 19-year-old Montevidean Gerardo Matos Rodríguez.2 The Palacio Salvo, inaugurated on 12 October 1928, stands where the café stood, and today the Museo del Tango of Montevideo is on the site.3
In 1998 the Uruguayan parliament declared La Cumparsita the "Himno popular y cultural del Uruguay".2 On 30 September 2009, at the request of Buenos Aires and Montevideo together, UNESCO declared the tango Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.1
The music of these years, most danced first
What happened, and where
- 1807
- 1917
- 1917
- 1928
- 1998
- 2009
- 1807
Where the sources differ
- Carlos Gardel was born in: Toulouse, 1890 (es.wikipedia.org) or Tacuarembó, 1883 (es.wikipedia.org)
- La cumparsita premiered at: Confitería La Giralda, 1917 (es.wikipedia.org) or Confitería La Giralda, 1916 (es.wikipedia.org)