“La puñalada” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

"La puñalada", music sheet cover. Argentine Tango music.

Pintín Castellanos

Pianist, composer, lyricist and leader (June 10, 1905 – July 2, 1983)

In 1933 an event that would change his life happened in a night club of Carrasco where he played the piano.

One night he offered the audience a new number of his, a tango that he had entitled “La puñalada” with a certain milonga air.

In that number all his fame would be based.

In the early summer of’36, Juan D’Arienzo —as usual— was ready to begin one more season in Montevideo.

And it was probably his intuition or that of his pianist Rodolfo Biagi —for many, the one responsible for devising the rhythm that made the leader famous— that transformed Castellanos’s tango into a milonga.

Biagi and the violinist Alfredo Mancuso were who transcribed the piece.

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