Sold Date: March 17, 2018
Start Date: March 13, 2018
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[Item Description]
ELVINO VARDARO (Violin)
10" COLUMBIA 15010 78rpm Label ARGENTINA.

Record:
Side A: El cuatrero - Tango
Side B: Pico de oro - Tango
Condition: EX (8/10) Clean and shiny surface, few light marks, plays great.

Biography:
Elvino Vardaro (18 June 1905, - 5 August 1971, ) was an  tango composer and violinist.

Vardaro grew up in the  neighborhood of Buenos Aires and at the age of four he began studying the violin. At the age fourteen he made his concert debut with a violin recital of classical music and whilst playing violin to accompany silent films he met the pianists  and  who played with him.

In 1922 he joined the orquestra directed by Juan Maglio and later went on to play with the ensemble of the bandoneonist . The following year he joined ’s orchestra and played alongside the violinists  and  with whom he would become close friends.

In 1926 the bandoneonist  left the orchestra of  and formed his own ensemble with  on piano, Pedro Maffia and  on bandoneons, Elvino Vardaro and  on violins and  on double bass. That same year Vardaro composed his first tango, Grito del alma. In 1929 he joined with Osvaldo Pugliese in forming the Vardaro-Pugliese Sextet that played together until 1931. Two years later he organised a sextet with  and  on bandoneons,  and Vardaro on violins,  on double bass and  on piano. In 1935 he introduced a third bandoneonist  and in 1937 the singers , ,  and  joined the ensemble which performed in cafes, cabarets and on the radio in Buenos Aires and in  in . In 1938 he played with  in an ensemble which included the singer  and two pianos.

After retiring to live in Cordoba he reappeared in 1941 to conduct the jazz orchestra Brighton Jazz, which performed on Radio El Mundo and in cafes and cabarets and recorded two works, one of which, Violinomania, was written by  and dedicated to Vardaro in tribute to his virtuosity.

For several years he played in the orchestra of  and was heard on Radio El Mundo and during the 1940s and 1950s he appeared with the orchestras of ,  and .

In 1955 he joined ’s Orquesta de Cuerdos and in 1961 moved to Piazzolla’s . During this same period he was also performing with the orchestra of .

In the last years of his life he moved to Arguello, near the city of Cordoba, where he played in the provincial symphony orchestra until his death on 5 August 1971.

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