La Cumparsita
“La Cumparsita”, the “Himno de los Tangos” was composed by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Mattos Rodriguez at the age of 20.
Listen to it here performed by Maestro Héctor Ulises Passarella:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJRYMEFCAQ&feature=youtu.be
Photo: Diario: “La Mañana”
Café “La Giralda” in Montevideo, where “La Cumparsita” was performed for the first time in 1917, by its author, Gerardo Mattos Rodriguez.