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Astor Piazzolla
陳勁豪
台大愛樂社
2012/12/03
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outline
• Biography
• Selection works
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Astor Piazzolla
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March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992
an Argentine composer and bandoneón player
born in Mar del Plata, Argentina
Italian immigrant parents
1925, move to Greenwich Village, New York City
Starting playing banboneon at 1929. The one he
saw in a pawn store.
• Quickly move back to Mar del Plata and then
move back to Little Italy, New York again in
1932.
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Where is Mar del Plata,
Argentina?
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What is a bandoneon?
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Mentors in New York
• Bela Wilda. A Hungarian pianist, student of
Rachmaninov.
• Carlos Gardel. Most important person in
Tango. Invites Piazzolla to play bandoneon
in his band (but his father does not allow
Astor to do so)
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Early career
• 1936: go back to Mar del Plata. Playing
bandoneon in a tango band
• 1941: study with Alberto Ginastera
• Between 1946-1950: formed his own
orchestra, Orquesta Típica, to try to
orchestrate tango music
• Learning stravinsky, bartok and conducting
with Hermann Scherchen
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Paris
• 1954: go to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger
• “--When I met her, I showed her my kilos of symphonies
and sonatas. She started to read them and suddenly
came out with a horrible sentence: 'It's very well written'.
And stopped, with a big period, round like a soccer ball.
After a long while, she said: 'Here you are like
Stravinsky, like Bartok, like Ravel, but you know what
happens? I can't find Piazzolla in this'. And she began to
investigate my private life: what I did, what I did and did
not play, if I was single, married, or living with someone,
she was like an FBI agent! And I was very ashamed to
tell her that I was a tango musician. Finally I said, 'I play
in a 'night club'. I didn't wanted to say 'cabaret'. And she
answered, 'Night club, mais oui, but that is a cabaret,
isn't it?' 'Yes,' I answered, and thought 'I'll hit this woman9
• --She kept asking: --"You say that you are not pianist.
What instrument do you play, then?" And I didn't want to
tell her that I was a bandoneon player, because I
thought, "Then she will throw me from the fourth floor".
Finally, I confessed and she asked me to play some bars
of a tango of my own. She suddenly opened her eyes,
took my hand and told me: "You idiot, that's Piazzolla!".
And I took all the music I composed, ten years of my life,
and sent it to hell in two seconds.
• --She taught me to believe in Astor Piazzolla, to believe
that my music wasn't as bad as I thought. I thought that I
was something like a piece of shit because I played
tangos in a cabaret, but I had something called style. I 10
felt a sort of liberation of the ashamed tango player I
Select works
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Liebertango
Adios Nonino
Fuga y misterio
Four season (summer)
Michelangelo 70 (Kremer/Piazzolla)
Maria de Buenos Aires
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