Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, La Cumparsita,

The Origin of La Cumparsita (Gerardo Hernan Matos Rodriguez)

Would you believe a 17-year-old composed one of the most recognizable and most recorded tangos of all time? That’s what happened in 1916, when teenager Gerardo Hernan “Becho” Matos Rodríguez had his friend Manuel Barca show Orchestra Roberto Firpo his music. In his own words, Firpo said of that fateful evening on February 8, “One …

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