La Cumparsita

La Cumparsita is one of the Uruguayan Gerardo Matos Rodríguez musician and composer (1897-1948) written piece of music. It is perhaps the best known and most played tango.

Formation

Matos Rodríguez wrote La Cumparsita (translated: carnival parade ) in 1916 as a young student as a march for a road group ( a so-called Murga ) of Carnival in Montevideo. Then the tango musician Roberto Firpo took up the piece and wrote for his Orquesta Típica a pure tango La Cumparsita Arrangement for. This was performed by him for the first time in the café La Giralda in Montevideo.

It is disputed whether the first gramophone recording of La Cumparsita 1916 by Roberto Firpo or from the year in 1917 by Orchester Alonso- Minotto comes.

The Uruguayan composer Miguel Villasboas told that the piece Rodríguez 1918 for 50 pesos sold to the music publishing Breyer in Buenos Aires and then immediately bet all the money on a horse race and lost.

Today's use

La Cumparsita is often, sometimes played in several versions, at the end of a milonga, tango dancers to show that the dance is over.