History of Tango - Part 9: Eduardo Arolas and the evolution of Tango mus...

En 1909, cuando Eduardo Arolas compuso "Una noche de garufa", aún no había adquirido una educación musical formalizada. Tenía 17 años.

Aún así, en su primera composición, todos los elementos de su estilo están presentes, estallando en el mundo, para regocijo de todos aquellos que, como yo, aman el Tango.

Esta cualidad no puede atribuirse a ningún otro compositor de Tango.

Dancing Argentine Tango with Miranda to Troilo-Fiorentino's music

Discipline is as essential as passion. Art is made of both. Our life has prospered thanks to both. Too much or too little of either of them, and we end up with no life and no art at all. This is precisely what defines what we are, as human beings.
Practice discipline and let your emotions come to you not only in the development of your dance, but also in your relationships at the milongas, and in your whole life. Tango will eventually boil over and define your entire life. You become a milonguera, a milonguero.

Dancing Argentine Tango with Miranda to Carlos Di Sarli's music.

Tango is embodied. You can see it. It is that person or that couple dancing, which lets you know -intuitively, but nevertheless as undoubtedly real to you as objective empirical knowledge- what Tango is.

History of Tango 9 - Eduardo Arolas and the evolution of Tango music - C...

In 1922, Eduardo Arolas took a second trip to Europe, with work in mind, but he didn’t receive help from the community of tango musicians living there. On his own, he got advantageous contracts to play in Paris and Madrid.
During his last three years of life, he resided in Europe, and we only know about the composition “Place Pigalle”, which he registered in France.