Astor biography

Piazzolla, Astor Origin, early years Astor Piazzolla was born on March 11. Childhood spent his childhood in New York, where his family moved in search of earnings. At nine, the musical instrument of a manual harmonic family donated to him by his father began to study on a bandoneon. In G. in the same period, he became interested in Bach’s music and arranged his works on a bandoneon.

Since that time, Piazzolla became interested in tango. The musical career in the city of Piazzolla returned to Argentina, from G. to gg. Piazzol led his own orchestra, in which he tried to realize his vision of tango performance, creating original arrangements and using complex rhythms. Then he began to write academic music for the bandoneon, wanting to turn this musical instrument from pop-orquest to the classic one.

Piazzolla went to Paris, where he began to take lessons from the famous teacher Nadia Bulanger, who inspired him in search of and creating his own musical style. Upon returning to Argentina, Piazzolla formed the Octet Buenos Aires ensemble and continued the experiments with arrangements. In his compositions in tango rhythms, he introduced electric guitars and shock percussion, which had never sounded in tango arrangements, as well as instrumental elements characteristic of jazz.

The developed techniques became the basis of the new style of the performance of tango - tango nuvo. Faced with a wave of criticism of performers and lovers of traditional tango and the refusal of studios from recording his music, he was forced to dissolve the group and leave for the United States, where he worked as an arranger for two years and continued to experiment with the unification of the styles of jazz and tango.

Returning to Argentina in the city of an unusual musical combination did not receive recognition in the musician’s homeland, but it caused admiration in the USA and Europe, where he toured a lot. In e gg. Piazzolla created the Ensemble of nine, which gained fame in many Latin American countries. In the same year, the record "Popular modern music by Buenos Aires" came out.

Piazzolla recorded the album "Summit" with the saxophonist Jerry Malligan. Then he created one of his most famous works - Libertango.

In recent years, Piazzolla participated in concerts both as a soloist, accompanied by symphonic orchestras, and with his quintet, performed in the USA, Latin America, European countries, and, finally, was recognized in his homeland. On his account near the works - tango, suits, concerts for a symphony orchestra, more than 50 melodies for films, including Piranha, Henry IV, Light, Armageddon.

His writings enriched the traditional tango genre, introducing it in a modern way that absorbed jazz elements and classical music. He is called the creator of the Nuevo tango style, "a musician who forced to draw the attention of the whole world to Argentine tango and fall in love with him." It was tango that became a symbol of his work, the first association at the mention of his name.

The world famous jazz magazine Down Beat called him one of the outstanding musicians in the world, and in his homeland Piazzolla is known as the "great Astor." Personal information, the death of the composer was twice married, from his first marriage he has two children. Astor Piazzolla died on July 4 G. was buried in a cemetery in the city of Pilar in the province of Buenos Aires.