Lacking the money for four fares for the family, he phoned his publisher in Paris, offering to renegotiate his contract for an advance, which he was granted. His father's death impelled him to go back to Argentina to try his new tango there again with the lessons he had assimilated in America. I doubt it.' He performed well over a thousand times, making 20 different arrangements of it. 'I was able to write the finest tune I have written. 'Perhaps I was surrounded by angels,' he said 20 years later. It was the composer's way of saying farewell to his father - Adios, Nonino. Then a pause, and then, amid continued sighs and the sound of crying came a new tune, a soul-haunting melody. Then the sound of her husband playing a bright little tune he had written some time earlier, called Nonino. His wife, DedГ©, heard only sighs for a while. Once home, Piazzolla asked to be left alone for a while. 'It was the only time I ever saw cry,' remembered Copes. When he called Argentina, his cousin informed him that Nonino had died just after noon that day. Nonino had been injured in a fall from his bicycle and, due to complications, was in critical condition. There, on the last night of the engagement, he received a telegram. One of Piazzolla's jobs was as music director to the dance team of Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves, which included a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico in October 1960, to appear in the Club Flamboyan. His daughter, Diana, gave Astor's parents theВ traditional Italian names for Grandpa and Grandma - Nonino and Nonina. His father was Vicente Piazzolla and his mother was Asunta Manetti Piazzolla, both of wholly Italian descent. On this album the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet,В Gustavo Toker andВ Juan Pablo Dobal play works by Astor Piazzolla.ДЄstor Piazzolla was the leader of the 'Tango Nuevo' (New Tango) movement.

Piazzolla list of works