Post 4: Musician

 My favorite musician and composer is Astor Piazzolla. He was a argentinan musician born in Argentina (duh!), but he studied in New York city. He made a mix between the classical music and the argentinan folk music. Some people say that Piazzolla is not real Tango music, and others say that he is not real classical music... Who have the reason? I don't really care hahaha... I think that his music is unique, deep and strong. It's interesting that maybe you can listen his music in a bar or in a theater and it can creates a very nice atmosphere. The most common instrumentation used by Astor Piazzolla is the strings quintet, that includes double bass, violin, electric guitar, piano and bandoneon.

I recommend you Libertango, Adiós Nonino, Verano Porteño and others... Nonino was the Astor's dad, so "Adiós Nonino" was composed when he died, so you can imagine that is not a happy song.

Astor piazzolla wrote some "fugues", that's a composition method very used by Johanne Sebastian Bach. But Piazzolla did not make the same than Bach, he made argentinan fugues, for me that was a whole revolution and currently so many latin american composers are trying to make the same


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