Piazzolla in a sentence

Piazzolla was employed as a temporary replacement for Toto Rodríguez who was ill, but when Rodríguez returned to work Troilo decided to retain Piazzolla as a fourth bandoneonist.

Vardaro’s novel interpretation of tango made a great impression on Piazzolla and years later he would become Piazzolla’s violinist in his Orquesta de Cuerdas and his First Quintet.

Their performance at the Fratry Hall will include the music of Alfred Schnitke, Antonio Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt, Pablo de Sarasate, Alexei Arkhipovsky, and Astor Piazzolla.

Piazzolla came along later and wrote his Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, not for the group that we're playing in, which is solo violin with orchestra, but for a smaller group with bandoneon and other authentic Argentinian instruments.

Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires was the centerpiece of the company’s 2018 festival.

Apart from playing the bandoneon, Piazzolla also became Troilo’s arranger and would occasionally play the piano for him.

Back in Buenos Aires he founded his Conjunto 9 (aka Nonet), a chamber music formation, which was a realisation of a dream for Piazzolla and for which he composed some of his most sophisticated music.

By the 1970s Piazzolla was living in Rome, managed by the Italian agent Aldo Pagani, and exploring a leaner, more fluid musical style drawing on more jazz influence, and with simpler, more continuous forms.

In 1970 Piazzolla returned to Paris where with Ferrer he wrote the oratorio El pueblo joven later premiered in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1971.

In later years, Piazzolla made light of this near miss, joking that had his father not been so careful, he would now be playing the harp, rather than the bandoneon.

In the 1980s Piazzolla was wealthy enough, for the first time, to become relatively autonomous artistically, and wrote some of his most ambitious multi-movement works.

Of the many ensembles that Piazzolla set up during his career it was the quintet formation which best expressed his approach to tango.

Pablo Ziegler has been particularly responsible for developing this aspect of the style both within Piazzolla's groups and since the composer's death.

Piazzolla & his orchestra at television network Canal13 in 1963.

Piazzolla made his London debut with his second Quinteto at the Almeida Theatre in London at the end of June.

Piazzolla was awarded second prize and the composition would prove to be his first popular success.

Piazzolla was serving as the musical director.

Piazzolla would lead Fiorentino's orchestra until 1946 and make many recordings with him, including his first two instrumental tangos, La chiflada and Color de rosa.

Tensions mounted between the two bandoneonists until, in 1944, Piazzolla announced his intention to leave Troilo and join the orchestra of the tango singer and bandoneonist Francisco Fiorentino.

The following year he wrote Balada para un loco with lyrics by Ferrer which was premiered at the First Iberoamerican Music Festival with Amelita Baltar and Piazzolla himself conducting the orchestra.