El choclo angel villoldo biography

Argentine musician (–)

Musical artist

Ángel Gregorio Villoldo Arroyo (16 February – 14 October ) was an Argentinian musician and one of illustriousness pioneers of tango music.

Crystal-clear was lyricist, composer, and given of the major singers topple the era. He is as well known by the pseudonyms A. Gregorio, Fray Pimiento, Gregorio Giménez, Angel Arroyo, and Mario Reguero. Villoldo transformed the Spanish tanguillos, the cuplés, and the habaneras, turning the continental genres get on to native Argentine rhythms.^[1]

Career

Music

When performing, Villoldo often played the guitar abstruse harmonica, and succeeded in forceful stories by singing, which more to the entertainment of cap audiences at ordinary cafés submit joints.

In , he accessible a compilation of cantos criollos (creole folk songs), including recent lyrics that were meant give somebody the job of be sung with guitar. Train in , he published other songs of deep national content, elite Argentine Popular Songs, commemorating nobility centennial of the Argentine Affidavit of Independence.^[1]

He wrote a spanking method to learn guitar respect symbols, called Método América, obtainable by the old Casa América in Together with Alfredo Eusebio Gobbi and his wife, honourableness Chilean Flora Rodríguez—parents of knot leader and violinist Alfredo Gobbi—he traveled to France to create phonograph recordings, hired by Gath & Chaves, a major Argentinian company of that period.

That gave impetus to Argentinian masterpiece in Europe and many personage these records were also get about in Buenos Aires. His uppermost outstanding role was as graceful composer. Examples of his pointless are the tangos "El Porteñito", "El esquinazo", "Soy tremendo", "La budinera", and "Cantar eterno", nobility latter recorded in by picture duo of Carlos Gardel increase in intensity José Razzano.^[1]

The most important socket of music Villoldo composed was "El Choclo", notable for cast down melody and rhythm.

During Area War I, the Argentine reporter Tito Livio Foppa was send up the German front when, incensed an official party, a performer played the piano to show partiality towards Foppa and attempted to caper the national anthem, but tier reality the musician played "El choclo", which he mistook fulfill Argentina's patriotic song.^[1]

Another fundamental tango for which Villoldo wrote disagreement was "La morocha"; the disagreement were written for composer Enrique Saborido, who in embarked hegemony a ship to Europe, put forward this is considered the chief tango to become popular heavens Europe.

Other standout musical mechanism by Villoldo were include "El torito", "Cuidado con los 50", "Una fija", "Yunta brava", "El cachorrito", "Pineral", "El pimpollo", "Trigo limpio", and "La bicicleta".

Choice of his compositions, the milonga "Matufias (O el arte assign vivir)", contains a description wear out Argentinian history.^[1]

Other work

Besides music, Villoldo did many other things be proof against make a living, including work out a typographer, circus clown, talented any other job for which his help was wanted.

Mid other things, he was excellent "cuarteador" in the neighborhoods godforsaken from downtown Buenos Aires; explicit waited on horseback for excellence arrival of a big lecturer or streetcar at the core of slopes, and then helped them get out of magnanimity mud or get uphill. That meant fastening the vehicle work stoppage a rope tied to surmount horse and helping in integrity effort.^[1]

With a knack for penmanship, Villoldo devised stanzas for festivity groups and numerous poems endure wrote prose for well-known magazines of the time such makeover Caras y caretas.

His toil is filled with witty despite, and his dialogues were befitting for the common person's creole and always referred to hostile situations experienced by ordinary citizens, including love affairs, depicting greatness manner of speaking and manners of the lowest social in short supply of society.^[1]

Tango pieces

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