Histoire du Tango

Astor Piazzolla

Subtitle: Pour quatre clarinettes

General Info

Year: 1986 / 2008
Duration: c. 19:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Flute and Guitar
Publisher: Editions Henry Lemoine
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $56.75

Movements

1. Bordello 1900
2. Café 1930
3. Nightclub 1960
4. Concert d'Aujourd'hui

Instrumentation

Full Score
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Histoire du Tango is one of the most famous compositions by tango composer Ástor Piazzolla, originally written for flute and guitar written in 1986. It is often played with different combinations, including violin substituted for the flute, and also harp or marimba substituted for the guitar.

It was Piazzolla's life work to bring the tango from the bordellos and dance halls of Argentina into the concert halls of Europe and America. He is among the astonishingly varied group of composers who were enabled by the teaching of Nadia Boulanger to become more authentically themselves. Boulanger--doyenne of high European art--encouraged Piazzolla not to become another European-style composer, but to apply to the tango the lessons of his study with her. Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango is his only work for flute and guitar--the instruments associated with the first flowering of the form, in Buenos Aires in 1882.

Histoire du Tango attempts to convey the history and evolution of the tango in four movements: Bordello 1900, Café 1930, Nightclub 1960, and Concert d'Aujourd'hui.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Kennesaw (Ga.) State University Wind Ensemble (David Kehler, conductor) - 30 September 2020
Breath Quartet – 2009

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Yo Soy Maria (Flex instrumentation) (arr. DeJonge) (1968/2020)

All Wind Works

Adiós Nonino (arr. Woude) (1984)
Contrabajissimo (arr. Scott) (1984/2008)
Escualo (arr. Teho) (1979/)
Fuga y Misterio (arr. Leeuwen) (1974/2018)
Fuga y misterio (arr. Ziegler) (1974/)
Fugata (arr. Smith)
Fugata (arr. Warner)
Histoire du Tango (1986/2008)
La Muerte del Ángel (arr. Pease) (1962/2005)
La Muerte del Angel (arr. Woo) (1962/2019)
Le Grand Tango (arr. Sharretts) (/2008)
Libertango (arr. Scott) (1974/2009)
Libertango (ed. Etchegoncelay) (1974/)
Libertango (arr. Murtha) (1974/2016)
Michelangelo '70 (arr. Warner)
Milonga del Angel (arr. Warner)
Milonga sin Palabras
Oblivion (arr. Avila) (1982)
Oblivion (arr. Longfield) (1982/2013)
Oblivion (arr. Six and Sealy) (1982/)
Oblivion (arr. Smith) (1982/)
Oblivion (arr. Warner) (1982/)
Primavera Portena
PULSACION (arr. Kataoka) (1969/2012)
Selections from "Cinco Piezas" for Guitar
Sinfonía Buenos Aires (1949/2022)
Street Tango (arr. Longfield) (2017)
Tangazo (arr. Ansanay-Alex) (2010)
Tango Suite (arr. Jackson) (1984/?)
Tango Suite (Saxophone Quartet) (arr. Sharretts) (/2007)
Tango Suite (Woodwind Quintet) (arr. Sharretts) (/2008)
Tango Suite (arr. White)
Tres Minutos con la Realidad (arr. Smith)
Yo Soy Maria (arr. DeJonge) (1968/)
Yo Soy Maria (Flex instrumentation) (arr. DeJonge) (1968/2020)

Resources

Histoire du Tango, Wikipedia Accessed 30 September 2020