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La Cumparsita - Gerardo Matos Rodriguez

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Uploaded by on Jan 4, 2010

Video was extracted of the film "Tango" by Carlos Saura (recommended)


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Gerardo Hernan Matos Rodríguez (March 28, 1897 April 25, 1948) Montevideo, Uruguay, also known as Becho, was an Uruguayan musician, composer and journalist. Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez was born in Montevideo, the son of the owner of the Moulin Rougle, a popular local cabaret. He studied architecture, but did not complete the course. He began composing as a young student in 1917, and his first known work, La Cumparsita, which he wrote on the piano at the Club Nacional de Football Clubhouse (a famous Uruguayan soccer team). It became one of the most recognizable tango pieces, though ironically, Matos was initially too shy to play the piece himself, and it became well-known through the performance of others.
He travelled widely throughout Europe and stayed in Paris for a time, as well as working as Uruguayan consul to Germany. In 1931 he collaborated on the flm score for Luces de Buenos Aires, shot in Joinville-le-Pont, France, and starring renowned tango vocalist Carlos Gardel. His best known work for the tango is La Cumparsita. It is perhaps the most famous and recognizable tango of all time.
Rodríguez also composed pieces for theater plays premiered in Buenos Aires: Manuel Romeros El Gran Circo Rivolta, among them. He led his own tango orchestra in Montevideo for a short time afterwards.
Other tangos of his include: Che papusa, oí, Son grupos, Yo tuve una novia, Cuando bronca el temporal, Hablame, Pobre corazón, Haceme caso a mí, Canto por no llorar, Rosa reseca, Botija linda, El pescador, Te fuiste, ¡ja, ja!, Adiós Argentina, Mi provinciana, La milonga azul, Dale celos, Raspail, Mocosita, La muchacha del circo, and San Telmo.
Rodriguez collaborated with the lyricists Enrique Cadícamo, Victor Soliño, Juan B. A. Reyes, Manuel Romero and Fernán Silva Valdés. With the latter he wrote a fine and touching series of Canciones Montevideanas ("Songs of Montevideo"), to which "Margarita punzó" belongs.
He died in Montevideo after a long illness, in 1948.

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  • une dans sensuelle, accompagnée d'une superbe musique, c'est superbe. Merci pour ce beau montage. Amicalement Aline

  • @aline1326 Merci pour tes mots Aline, baisers pour toi depuis Montevideo

  • ya salieron con complejos de inferioridad los uruguayos como me rompen los huevos que en cada video argentino siempre hay un "hermano latinoamericano rompiendo bien las pelotas

  • Al que le venga el sayo, que se lo ponga. La música debería unir no dividir, fue la intención con la que edité este video. Si causa malestar, sabemos en que dirección transita el acomplejamiento y quienes son sus receptores

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  • SON UNA MIERDA LOS PORTEÑOS, SIN EMBARGO NO PUEDO DECIR LO MISMO DEL RESTO DEL PAIS.

  • a los argentinos no les da la cabeza para hacer algo tan bueno como esto solo les da para robar y alcahuetear en españa corren de alcahuetes que son los uruguayos les damos un par de cachetadas de vez en cuando y se calman son muy cagones

  • HAHAHA y en cada vídeo siempre hay un argentino intentándose atribuir algún merito, a toda cuesta, incluso a cuesta de hacer un ridículo espantoso, pero eso ya es parte de su CULTURA HERMANO! <3 y lo digo con amor. Así que eso de complejo de inferioridad, lo escribís en un papelito eh? amor mío, argento de mi alma y te lo metes bien de canto donde te quepa.

  • LA CUMPARSITA ES CREACION DEL URUGUAYO GERARDO MATOS RODRIGUEZ QE PARTE NO ENTENDES HERMANO??

  • @matiasdom85  PORTEÑO PUTO !! CAGÓN !!!

  • @matiasdom85 hacete romper el culo !! porteño desgraciado !! hijo de puta !! lavate la boca antes de hablar de URUGUAY que les queda grande y por eso les duele cada día que les rompemos el culo y eso pasa hace mas de de 200 años !!! PORTEÑO MAMON !!!!

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