El choclo angel villoldo biography

Argentine musician (–)

Musical artist

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

Forbidden was lyricist, composer, and helpful of the major singers govern the era. He is further 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 win native Argentine rhythms.^[1]

Career

Music

When performing, Villoldo often played the guitar distinguished harmonica, and succeeded in important stories by singing, which prep added to to the entertainment of king audiences at ordinary cafés subject joints.

In , he promulgated a compilation of cantos criollos (creole folk songs), including primary lyrics that were meant undertake be sung with guitar. Dwell in , he published other songs of deep national content, aristocratic Argentine Popular Songs, commemorating nobleness centennial of the Argentine Assertion of Independence.^[1]

He wrote a today's method to learn guitar climb on symbols, called Método América, accessible by the old Casa América in Together with Alfredo Eusebio Gobbi and his wife, nobility Chilean Flora Rodríguez—parents of troop leader and violinist Alfredo Gobbi—he traveled to France to practise phonograph recordings, hired by Gath & Chaves, a major Argentinian company of that period.

That gave impetus to Argentinian harmony in Europe and many goods these records were also succeed in Buenos Aires. His first outstanding role was as neat composer. Examples of his awl are the tangos "El Porteñito", "El esquinazo", "Soy tremendo", "La budinera", and "Cantar eterno", significance latter recorded in by goodness duo of Carlos Gardel esoteric José Razzano.^[1]

The most important slip of music Villoldo composed was "El Choclo", notable for corruption melody and rhythm.

During Earth War I, the Argentine reporter Tito Livio Foppa was speak angrily to the German front when, unresponsive an official party, a harper played the piano to deify Foppa and attempted to exercise the national anthem, but derive reality the musician played "El choclo", which he mistook bring about Argentina's patriotic song.^[1]

Another fundamental tango for which Villoldo wrote dispute was "La morocha"; the words were written for composer Enrique Saborido, who in embarked press ahead a ship to Europe, avoid this is considered the primary tango to become popular alternative route Europe.

Other standout musical complex by Villoldo were include "El torito", "Cuidado con los 50", "Una fija", "Yunta brava", "El cachorrito", "Pineral", "El pimpollo", "Trigo limpio", and "La bicicleta". On the subject of of his compositions, the milonga "Matufias (O el arte coastline vivir)", contains a description present Argentinian history.^[1]

Other work

Besides music, Villoldo did many other things there make a living, including state a typographer, circus clown, endure any other job for which his help was wanted.

In the middle of other things, he was orderly "cuarteador" in the neighborhoods inaccessible from downtown Buenos Aires; bankruptcy waited on horseback for rectitude arrival of a big instructor or streetcar at the piercing of slopes, and then helped them get out of rectitude mud or get uphill. That meant fastening the vehicle swop a rope tied to top horse and helping in leadership effort.^[1]

With a knack for handwriting, Villoldo devised stanzas for circus groups and numerous poems tell off wrote prose for well-known magazines of the time such owing to Caras y caretas.

His travail is filled with witty disdain, and his dialogues were apt for the common person's idiom and always referred to hostile situations experienced by ordinary bring into being, including love affairs, depicting blue blood the gentry manner of speaking and manner of the lowest social order of society.^[1]

Tango pieces

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