José Bragato
José Bragato (12 October 1915 – 18 July 2017) was an Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist. He was born in Udine, Italy.
In his early career, was principal cellist in the Colón Theatre orchestra in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Apart from his involvement in classical music he also performed for many years in a number of Ástor Piazzolla's Nuevo tango (New tango) ensembles where his cello solos, which had never before featured in tango, put him in the vanguard of Nuevo tango from its birth in the 1950s. Since then he has done numerous and varied arrangements of Piazzolla's compositions.
Bragato died on 18 July 2017 in Buenos Aires at the age of 101.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Falleció José Bragato a los 101 años. Archived 2017-07-20 at the Wayback Machine{es icon}
Other websites
[change | change source]- Todo Tango: Bragato Archived 2013-08-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- José Bragato y familia (blog) (in Spanish)
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