LA CUMPARSITA - Tango's Most Famous Song ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
- Tango's Most Famous Song The cafe 'La Giralda' in Montevideo, Uruguay, occupies a special place in Tango history. It was there in the year 1917 that a young Gerardo Matos Rodriguez gave (anonymously) the music score of a tango, in 4/8, he had written to the orchestra of Roberto Firpo to play for the first time. Gerardo was then an adolescent (17 years old) who was barely mak..