Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, only child of Vicente “Nonino” Piazzolla and Asunta Mainetti. In 1925, the family relocates to New York City until ...

For musicians and aficionados of Argentine tango, the scale and scope of the Astor Piazzolla collection at UC Santa Barbara is staggering. Thousands of pages of the composer’s original sheet music.

This “operita” by the Argentine composer and bandeonista has had only a few recordings, none completely satisfactory. I like the insouciant style of this performance from the Cascade Music Festival in ...

Astor Piazzolla's international breakthrough albums, Tango: Zero Hour and The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Nonesuch, 1986 and 1991), were made with small groups, with which the bandoneonist ...

When you celebrate someone’s 100 th birthday, you always do it in style. Therefore, Apollo Chamber Players will pull out all the stops for the Argentinean tango composer Astor Piazzolla, who would ...

In the waning years of the tango’s “golden age,” which spanned the 1930s to the mid-1950s, the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) began writing irresistible music that melded elements of ...

Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...

The sold-out performance at 312 W 36th Street gave audiences a first taste of what will soon blossom into a full-length production, set to premiere on May 16, 2025, at Theater at St. Jean, and later ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In celebration of Astor Piazzolla's 100th birthday, the Latin Grammy-winning Quinteto Astor Piazzolla will pay tribute to the man who revolutionized tango music forever. Kravis ...

Daniel Rosenfeld’s “Piazzolla, the Years of the Shark,” a biographical documentary about tango musician Astor Piazzolla, world premieres at the Intl. Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).