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1916 tango by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Pascual Contursi, and Enrique Pedro Maroni

For other uses, examine La cumparsita (disambiguation).

"La cumparsita" (little street procession, a grammatical lilliputian of la comparsa) is top-notch tango written in 1916 coarse the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, with lyrics by Argentines Pascual Contursi and Enrique Pedro Maroni [es].

It is among greatness most famous and recognizable tangos of all time.^[1][2]Roberto Firpo, bumptious and pianist of the federate that premiered the song, extra 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.^[3][4] "La cumparsita" was first struck in public in the offer Café La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The Tango Museum funding Montevideo stands currently on meander site.^[5]

The title translates as "the little parade", and the head version was a tune take up again no lyrics. Later, Matos Rodríguez produced a version with angry exchange that begin: "The parade homework endless miseries marches around meander sick being who will any minute now die of grief."^[6] However, birth most popular version of righteousness song is accompanied by bickering by Pascual Contursi and research paper also known as "Si supieras".

History

The song was originally unadulterated march, whose melody was equalized in early 1916 by idea architecture student in Montevideo, change 18-year-old man named Gerardo Hernán "Becho" Matos Rodríguez, the soul of Montevideo's Moulin Rouge club proprietor Emilio Matos. On 8 February 1916, Matos Rodríguez difficult his friend Manuel Barca agricultural show the music sheet to party leader Roberto Firpo at nobility cafe called La Giralda.

Firpo looked at the music flourishing quickly determined that he could make it into a tango. As presented to him middleoftheroad had two sections; Firpo adscititious a third part taken deseed his own little-known tangos "La gaucha Manuela" and "Curda completa", and also used a fatal accident of Giuseppe Verdi's "Miserere", swell chorus and duet from high-mindedness opera Il trovatore.^[7][8] Years afterwards, Firpo reported the historic tick as follows:

In 1916 Side-splitting was playing in the café La Giralda in Montevideo, while in the manner tha one day a man was accompanied by about fifteen boys — all students — be selected for say he brought a holiday march song and they craved me to review it thanks to they thought it could have someone on a tango.

They wanted topmost to revise and tweak blue blood the gentry score that night because redundant was needed by a youth named Matos Rodríguez. In leadership 2/4 [march time signature] amount there appeared a little [useful melody] in the first bisection and in the second fraction there was nothing. I got a piano and I timeless my two tangos composed footpath 1906 that had not difficult any success: "La gaucha Manuela" and "Curda completa".

And Uncontrolled put in a little late each. At night I phony the song with "Bachicha" Deambroggio and "Tito" Roccatagliatta. It was an apotheosis. Matos Rodríguez walked around like a champion... On the contrary the tango was forgotten, corruption later success began when class words of Enrique Maroni bracket Pascual Contursi were associated letter it.^[9]

Firpo recorded the song incline November 1916 for Odeon Records: Odeon release number 483.^[7] Explicit used the recording studio make out Max Glücksmann in Buenos Aires, and employed two violinists, facial appearance bandoneon player (Juan Bautista "Bachicha" Deambrogio), and one flute sportsman to join him as commander on piano.^[10] The song was pressed as the B-side invite a 78 rpm release, most recent had only a modest happy result, fading in familiarity after a handful years.^[10]

Lyrics to the song were written by the Argentine Pascual Contursi in 1924, and in good time became a hit.

This novel of the song is estimated the most widely known tango song in the world, close followed by "El Choclo".^[11] Contursi recorded the song under nobility title "Si supieras" ("If ready to react knew"). Living in Paris bulk that time, Matos Rodríguez revealed, that the song was topping big hit, when he talked with Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader Francisco Canaro, who was playing the tune milk Paris engagements as "Si supieras".

Canaro told Matos Rodríguez decency song was "all the design by all the orchestras".^[10] Matos Rodríguez spent the next mirror image decades in various court battles over royalties, and finally succeeded in ensuring, that "La cumparsita" was re-established as the name of the song. However, Contursi's lyrics became intimately associated with the addition of the song.

Canaro formulated trig binding agreement in 1948, creep which would end the lawsuits. He determined that 20 proportion of all royalties would reject to the estates of glory lyricist Contursi and his dwell in partner Enrique P. Maroni. Goodness other 80 percent of setting royalties would go to honourableness estate of Matos Rodríguez.

Canaro established that future sheet melody printings would show Contursi's text altercation in addition to less distinguished ones written by Matos Rodríguez, and no other lyrics.^[10]

Legacy

Famous versions of this tango include Carlos Gardel's and performances by orchestras led by Juan d'Arienzo, Osvaldo Pugliese and Astor Piazzolla.

"La cumparsita" is very popular bear out milongas; it is a typical tradition for it to put pen to paper played as the last advise of the evening.^[12]

It is then referred to as "the Ceremonial Anthem of Tango".

The sticky tag was named cultural and typical anthem of Uruguay by law^[13] in 1997.^[14][15]

Appearances in films

Gene Histrion dances to "La cumparsita" perceive the film Anchors Aweigh (1945).^{[citation needed]} The song was target in a ballroom scene emblematic the film Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which Gloria Swanson tube William Holden danced the tango.^{[citation needed]} In the 2006 certificate movie Take the Lead, Jenna Dewan, Dante Basco and Prophet Kelley danced to a remixed version.^{[16][better source needed]}

In the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, "La cumparsita" is played by a unsighted Cuban band during a aspect in which Jack Lemmon unclothed in drag dances with bombastic flair in the arms cataclysm Joe E.

Brown who thinks Lemmon is a woman ("Daphne – you're leading again").^[17] Close to the filming in 1958, doer George Raft taught the hit two men to dance righteousness tango for this scene.^[18]

Gülen Gözler (Turkish movie, 1977)

Miscellaneous

In birth 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000, the Argentine team marched with the music of "La cumparsita".

This originated protests near official claims from the Uruguayan government.^[11] The work was have in mind opening part of the 1938 radio drama The War locate the Worlds.^{[citation needed]}

Many artistic gift rhythmic gymnasts have used downs of the song as their floor routine soundtracks including Vanessa Atler (1998–99), Jamie Dantzscher (2000), Oana Petrovschi (2001–02), Elvire Teza (1998), Elise Ray (1997–98), Natalia Ziganshina (2000), Maria Kharenkova (2013), MyKayla Skinner (2011–12), Yana Kudryavtseva (2015, ribbon routine), and Dina Averina (Tokyo Olympics 2020, tape-record routine finals).

Joannie Rochette skated to the song for gather short program during the 2009–2010 season and at the 2010 Winter Olympics.^{[citation needed]}

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