“La milonga que faltaba” by Edgardo Donato y su Orquesta Típica with Horacio Lagos in vocals, 1938.
Edgardo Donato
Violinist, leader, and composer
(April 14, 1897 – February 15, 1963)
He was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal, located to the south of the center of the city of Buenos Aires, where today we find this address: Avenida Belgrano 1657. While still a child, with his family, he moved to Montevideo, the capital of the República Oriental del Uruguay.
When he was ten, he started to study music with his father, and later he studied at a conservatory named Franz Liszt. When he was 21, he was ready to work as a professional. He began with his father in the opera music field, wearing a stiff collar and a much more serious look, even though he was a stubborn humorist then and throughout his lifetime, even when he played the violin.
But, soon, he managed to free himself from that yoke and joined -always in Montevideo- the orchestra of the Negro Quevedo, an Argentine bandoneonist, with the peculiarity that the piano was in charge of Enrique Delfino. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…
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