Tango timeline

For a while I've been trying to find time to compile a chronological list of the great names of tango, of musicians and singers. Information from www.todotango.com, 'Sitio declarado de Interes Nacional'.

Roberto Firpo 1884 - 1969
Genaro Esposito 1886 – 1944
Francisco Canaro 1888 – 1964
Carlos Gardel 1890 – 1935
Osvaldo Fresedo 1897 – 1984
Rosita Melo 1897 - 1981
Pedro Maffia 1899 – 1967
Julio De Caro 1899 – 1980
Angel D'Agostino 1900 – 1991
Juan D'Arienzo 1900 – 1976
Pedro Laurenz 1902 – 1972
Carlos Di Sarli 1903 – 1960
Mercedes Simone 1904 – 1990
Angel Vargas 1904 - 1959
Osvaldo Pugliese 1905 – 1995
Francisco Fiorentino 1905 - 1955
Ricardo Tanturi 1905 – 1973
Rudolpho Biagi 1906 – 1969
Carlos Dante 1906 – 1985
Miguel Calo 1907 – 1972
Libertad Lamarque 1908 - 2000
Alfredo De Angelis 1910 – 1992
Nelly Omar 1911 -
Alfredo Gobbi 1912 – 1965
Florindo Sassone 1912 – 1982
Alberto Castillo 1914 – 2002
Anibal Troilo 1914 - 1975
Enrique Francini 1916 – 1978
Horacio Salgan 1916 -
Armando Pontier 1917 - 1983
Raul Beron 1920 - 1982
Astor Piazzolla 1921 – 1992
Roberto Rufino 1922 - 1999
Roberto Goyenche 1926 - 1994
Horacio Ferer 1933 -

Not many women in the list, although there were many cancionistas. A couple of interesting exceptions: Francisca “Paquita” Bernardo, a bandoneon player and band leader who took on a young pianist called Osvaldo Pugliese in the early 1920s, and Rosita Melo, whose vals, Desde el Alma, was recorded by the Firpo orchestra in 1911 when she was just 14. She went on to teach piano at the Conservatory, and was famous as a composer and as a performer of classical and popular music.


Rosita Melo