“La mariposa” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica, 1966.
Pedro Maffia
Bandoneonist, leader, composer, teacher
(August 28, 1899 – October 16, 1967)
It is not known what secret gift made Pedro Maffia find in the core of the bandoneon sounds that nobody had discovered before.
Until the second decade of the twentieth-century bandoneon players tended to imitate the flute —gradually displaced in the early quartets— and the barrel organ with their instrument. After undergoing his childhood frequent beating with a chain made by his brutal father, who forced him to beg for money after each tango he played, Maffia was who delivered the bandoneon needed by this popular genre to leave behind the playful Guardia Vieja (old stream) and turn serious, concentrated, fairly dreaming and frequently sad. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…
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