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Where to start with Piazzolla
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
ChamberLibertango, tango for chamber ensemble
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OrchestralAconcagua', concerto for bandoneón, string instruments and percussion
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Keyboard3 Preludes, for piano
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VocalA Don Nicanor Paredes, tango song
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OrchestralSinfonía Buenos Aires, "Tres Movimentos Sinfónicos"
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Chamber2 Piezas Breves
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Orchestral2 Tangos, for string orchestra
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Chamber3 Piezas Breves, for cello and piano
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Orchestral3 Tangos for bandoneon and orchestra
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Chamber4 for Tango, for string quartet
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Chamber5 Pieces, for guitar
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Chamber5 Piezas for Guitar
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Chamber6 Études tanguistiques, for flute solo
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ChamberAdiós nonino, tango for chamber ensemble
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ChamberAmelitango, for chamber ensemble
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Piazzolla's catalogueMost Popular
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Libertango
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Adios Nonino
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Oblivion
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Verano Porteño (from Four Seasons)
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Invierno Porteño
Most Acclaimed
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Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (complete)
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Histoire du Tango (flute + guitar)
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Le Grand Tango (cello + piano)
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Tango: Zero Hour (quintet)
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Five Tango Sensations
Most Weird
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Tangazovariations on Buenos Aires for orchestra — strange structural piece; not dance music
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Maria de Buenos Airestango operita — opera meets tango; Maria is a prostitute who becomes a ghost
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Aconcagua (bandoneón concerto)a concerto for the instrument most associated with tango
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Tango Balletfor theater — documentary of tango history
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Concierto para Quintetofive movements for his quintet — the most structurally complex thing he wrote
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 134
- Chamber
- ● Libertango, tango for chamber ensemble
- 2 Piezas Breves
- 3 Piezas Breves, for cello and piano
- 4 for Tango, for string quartet
- 5 Pieces, for guitar
- 5 Piezas for Guitar
- 6 Études tanguistiques, for flute solo
- Adiós nonino, tango for chamber ensemble
- Amelitango, for chamber ensemble
- Ave Maria, for oboe and piano
- Años de Soledad, tango for chamber ensemble
- Baires 72, tango for chamber ensemble
- Balada para un loco, tango song for chamber ensemble
- Bandoneón, tango for chamber ensemble
- Bandó, tango for chamber ensemble
- Biyuya, tango for chamber ensemble
- Bragatissimo, for cello, bandoneon and piano
- Buenos Aires hora cero, tango for chamber ensemble
- Calambre, tango for chamber ensemble
- Chau Paris, tango
- Chau Paris, tango for chamber ensemble
- Chin Chin, tango for chamber ensemble
- Cierra tus ojos y escucha, tango for chamber ensemble
- Concierto para quinteto, tango
- Contrabajísimo, tango for acoustic bass and chamber ensemble
- Contrastes, tango for chamber ensemble
- Coral, tango for chamber ensemble
- Cuatro Tangos
- Cuatro estaciónes porteñas, tango cycle for chamber ensemble
- Decarísimo, tango
- Decaríssimo, tango for chamber ensemble
- Deus Xango, for chamber ensemble
- Escualo, tango for chamber ensemble
- Finale, tango for chamber ensemble
- Fracanapa, tango for chamber ensemble
- Fuga 9, tango for chamber ensemble
- Fuga y Misterio, for chamber ensemble
- Guardia Nueva, tango for chamber ensemble
- Homenaje a Córdoba, tango for chamber ensemble
- Imperial, tango
- Introducción al ángel, tango for chamber ensemble
- Kicho, tango for chamber ensemble
- L'histoire du tango, tango cycle for flute and guitar
- La Muerte del angel, for piano, violin, and cello
- La camorra I, tango, for chamber ensemble
- La camorra II, tango, for chamber ensemble
- La camorra III, tango, for chamber ensemble
- Le grand tango, for cello and piano
- Little Italy 1930, tango
- Lo que vendrá, tango for chamber ensemble
- Lunfardo, tango
- Marrón y azul, tango for chamber ensemble
- Meditango, tango for chamber ensemble
- Melodia en La menor, for bandoneón and strings
- Michelangelo '70, tango for bandoneon, violin, electric guitar, piano and double bass
- Midnight, tango for bandoneón and string quartet
- Milonga en Re, tango for violin and piano
- Milonga sin palabras, for chamber ensemble
- Mufa 72, tango for chamber ensemble
- Mumuki, for chamber ensemble
- Novitango, tango for chamber ensemble
- Nuestro tiempo, tango for chamber ensemble
- Oblivion, tango for chamber ensemble
- Oda para un Hippie, tango for chamber ensemble
- Onda nueve, tango, for chamber ensemble
- Picasso, tango for chamber ensemble
- Preludio 9, tango
- Prepárense, tango, for chamber ensemble
- Retrato d'Alfredo Gobi, for chamber ensemble
- Revirado, tango for chamber ensemble
- Romance del diablo, tango for chamber ensemble
- Río Sena, tango for chamber ensemble
- S.V.P., tango for accordian
- Sentido Unico, tango for chamber ensemble
- Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra
- Soledad, tango for chamber ensemble
- Suite Punta del Este, for bandoneón solo and chamber orchestra
- Summit, for chamber ensemble
- Tangata Silfo y Ondina, tango suite
- Tangata, tango for chamber ensemble
- Tango Ballet, for octet
- Tango Suite for 2 Guitars
- Tanguedia, tango for chamber ensemble
- Tanguisimo
- Tanti anni prima, tango for chamber ensemble
- The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night, tango suite for chamber orchestra
- Tres minutos con la realidad, tango
- Tristango, for chamber ensemble
- Tristezas de un doble A, tango for chamber ensemble
- Triunfal, tango
- Triunfal, tango for chamber ensemble
- Tzigane tango, tango for chamber ensemble
- Undertango, for chamber ensemble
- Vayamos al diablo, tango for chamber ensemble
- Violentango, tango for chamber ensemble
- Ángel series, tangos for chamber ensemble
- Orchestral
- Aconcagua', concerto for bandoneón, string instruments and percussion
- Sinfonía Buenos Aires, "Tres Movimentos Sinfónicos"
- 2 Tangos, for string orchestra
- 3 Tangos for bandoneon and orchestra
- Bandoneón Concerto
- Concerto for bandoneón, guitar and string orchestra, "Hommage à Liege"
- Contemplación y danza, for clarinet and strings
- Fugata, tango for saxophone and orchestra
- Mar del Plata 70, tango for saxophone and orchestra
- Milongon festivo, for orchestra
- Suite for Oboe and String Orchestra, op. 9
- Tangazo
- Tres movimientos tanguísticos porteños
- Keyboard
- 3 Preludes, for piano
- Pigmalion, tango song
- Vocal
- A Don Nicanor Paredes, tango song
- Balada para mi muerte, for voice and ensemble
- Balada para un loco, tango song
- Canción de las venusinas, tango song
- Che Tango Che, tango song
- Chiquilín de Bachin, tango song
- El titere, tango song
- Jacinto chiclana, vocal milonga
- La bicicleta blanca
- La misma Pena, tango song
- La última grela, tango song
- Los pajaros perdidos, tango song
- Pequeña cancion para Matilde, tango song
- Preludio para el año 3001, tango song
- Preludio para la cruz del Sur, tango song
- Retrato d'Alfredo Gobi, tango song
- Se potessi ancora
- Será que estoy llorando, tango song
- Vuelvo al Sur, tango song
- Stage
- Lumière, film
- María de Buenos Aires
- Sur, film
- Tango: El exilio de Gardel, film