National Geographic Music (National Geographic)

Juan José Mosalini is known in Europe as the ambassador of the living tango - in other words, one of the rarest bandoneon players able to give life to the tango under all its forms and representations, from the origins to the present day.

The bandoneon only appeared in the 1910s. It gave a new dimension to tango music and became its symbol. The golden age of tango came in the 1940s and it offered to the world its most typical orchestras: four bandoneons, four violins, a viola, a piano and a bass guitar.

Juan José Mosalini revives this great tradition through his creation of the Grand Orchestra of Tango. —Courtesy Calabash Music