Who Wrote the Arrangement of Malena?
The Treasure in Troilo's Cupboard Aníbal Troilo, El Bandoneón Mayor de Buenos Aires (1914 – 1975), is one of the cornerstones of tango music, and the pile of manuscripts found posthumously in his cupboard is a priceless treasure. The material, consisting of 489 arrangements for Troilo’s orchestra, was scanned to pdf by Javier Cohen and Juan Carlos Cuacci at EMPA, Escuela de Musica Popular Avellaneda , from 2011 to 2014. In 2019, the originals were donated to Instituto de Investigación en Etnomusicología of Buenos Aires. Currently, there’s a project going on at the institute named Arreglos inéditos de Piazzolla para Troilo aimed at publishing the unpublished arrangements by Astor Piazzolla. The first edition just came out containing tangos Nostalgia and Lo que vendrá as well as Azabache, a milonga candombe. Azabache was Piazolla’s debut as an arranger. These are the first pages of his manuscript and the published edition; there is no orche...