Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla, better known as Astor Piazzolla , was a distinguished Argentine composer and bandoneon player who lived between 1921 and 1992. He is known as the composer who renewed tango and opened the field for new Argentine music . Thanks, among other things, to the way you sailed between the waters of academic music and popular music.

Piazzolla introduced rhythmic, harmonic and timbral innovations in the tango genre that, at least at first, won him the enmity of the purists. All in all, attentive to the new times and faithful to the principle of musical creativity, Piazzolla achieved the respect and admiration of Argentina and the world.

The artist left a legacy of more than 600 composed works. This number ranges from suites to concerts for bandoneon, concerts for orchestra, tangos, pieces for piano and guitar soloists, an opera-tango and 44 movie soundtracks. Let us know here some of his most representative works.