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Augusto Berto, Argentine Tango bandoneon player, leader and composer.

“La payanca” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1936.

Augusto Berto, Argentine Tango bandoneon player, leader and composer.Augusto Berto

Bandoneonist, composer, and leader.
(4 February 1889 – 29 April 1953)

A patriarchal figure of Tango, a bandoneon player of the heroic period when bandoneon became the instrument most representative of the groups devoted to Tango. His contribution to the definitive adoption and recognition of bandoneon and, consequently, of Tango in the different milieus and social strata has been valuable and decisive.

His first tango was “La payanca”.

“One evening, when the dancers had run through our repertory, I had to improvise, and that was the resulting number. After seventy or eighty pieces, one after another, you had to improvise.” Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

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Marcelo Solis

I was born in Argentina. Through my family and the community that saw my upbringing, I have been intimately involved with the culture of Tango all my life, and have been an Argentine Tango dance performer, choreographer and instructor for over 30 years. I profoundly love Tango dancing, music, and culture, particularly that of the Golden Era. I am a milonguero.

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