įirpo recorded the song in November 1916 for Odeon Records: Odeon release number 483. But the tango was forgotten, its later success began when the words of Enrique Maroni and Pascual Contursi were associated with it. Matos Rodríguez walked around like a champion. At night I played the song with "Bachicha" Deambroggio and "Tito" Roccatagliatta. I got a piano and I remembered my two tangos composed in 1906 that had not had any success: "La gaucha Manuela" and "Curda completa". In the 2/4 score there appeared a little in the first half and in the second half there was nothing. They wanted me to revise and tweak the score that night because it was needed by a boy named Matos Rodríguez. In 1916 I was playing in the café La Giralda in Montevideo, when one day a man was accompanied by about fifteen boys - all students - to say he brought a carnival march song and they wanted me to review it because they thought it could be a tango. Years later, Firpo reported the historic moment as follows: As presented to him it had two sections Firpo added a third part taken from his own little-known tangos "La gaucha Manuela" and "Curda completa", and also used a portion of the song "Miserere" by Giuseppe Verdi from the opera Il trovatore. Firpo looked at the music and quickly determined that he could make it into a tango. On 8 February 1916, Matos Rodríguez had his friend Manuel Barca show the music sheet to orchestra leader Roberto Firpo at the cafe called La Giralda. The song was originally a march, whose melody was composed in early 1916 by an architecture student in Montevideo, an 18-year-old man named Gerardo Hernán "Becho" Matos Rodríguez, the son of Montevideo's Moulin Rouge nightclub proprietor Emilio Matos. Later, Matos Rodríguez produced a version with lyrics that begin: "The parade of endless miseries marches around that sick being who will soon die of grief." However, the most popular version of the song is accompanied by lyrics by Pascual Contursi and is also known as "Si supieras". The title translates as "the little parade", and the first version was a tune with no lyrics. The Tango Museum of Montevideo stands currently on that historic spot. "La cumparsita" was first played in public in the old Café La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay. Roberto Firpo, director and pianist of the orchestra that premiered the song, added parts of his tangos "La gaucha Manuela" and "Curda completa" to Matos' carnival march ("La cumparsita"), resulting in "La cumparsita" as it is currently known. It is among the most famous and recognizable tangos of all time. " La cumparsita" ( little street procession, a grammatical diminutive of la comparsa) is a tango written in 1916 by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, with lyrics by Argentines Pascual Contursi and Enrique Pedro Maroni. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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