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Tango is a style of music in 2
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4 time that originated among European and African immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played on a solo guitar, guitar duo, or an ensemble, known as the orquesta típica, which includes at least two violins, flute, piano, double bass, and at least two bandoneóns. Sometimes guitars and a clarinet join the ensemble. Tango may be purely instrumental or may include a vocalist. Tango music and dance have become popular throughout the world.
Carlos Di Sarli was an Argentine tango musician, orchestra leader, composer and pianist.
Mario Davidovsky was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.
Chester Biscardi is an Italian American composer and educator.
Carlos Alberto Franzetti is a composer and arranger from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Paul Eugène Glass is a Swiss-American composer.
Mariano Alberto Martínez, known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist.
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf is a German composer, editor and author.
Rebecca Saunders is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, Saunders' compositions received the third highest total number of votes (30), surpassed only by the works of Georg Friedrich Haas (49) and Simon Steen-Andersen (35). In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked Skin (2016) the 16th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Tom Service writing that "Saunders burrows into the interior world of the instruments, and inside the grain of Fraser's voice [...] and finds a revelatory world of heightened feeling."
Rudi Spring is a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic. He is known for vocal compositions on texts by poets and his own, and for chamber music such as his three Chamber Symphonies.
Cristina Filoso is an Argentine concert pianist.
Gerhard Präsent is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.
Juan Manuel Abras Contel is a classical music composer, conductor, musicologist and historian from Sweden. Born in Stockholm to a European family that moved around the world, Abras became a cosmopolitan artist and scientist.
Reinhard Wolschina is a German composer.
