Location: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Birth Tithi:2-dvitiya krishna
Keywords:
Composer/ Arranger
Instrumentalist
Public Information
Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed 'nuevo tango,' incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of tango music". He died on 4 July 1992, aged 71, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Sy Scholfield quotes from "Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla" by María Susana Azzi and Simon Collier (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 3: "Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla, the only child of Vicente Piazzolla and his wife Asunta Manetti, was born there [Mar del Plata] at around two in the morning on Friday, 11 March 1921, in a rented room behind Angela Bridarolli's confectionery store, 'La Marplatense,' at Calle Rivadavia 2527, three blocks from the Cathedral."
Chart Analysis
Lagna for this natal chart is Capricorn. The lagna lord Saturn has a shadbala ratio of 1.33 and is placed in house 8.
Moon is in nakshatra of U.Bhadra (γ Pegasi, α Andromedae) in pada 4. Moon has a shadbala ratio of 1.17 and is placed in house 3
The strongest planet in this chart is Mars with a shadbala ratio of 1.63 and is placed in house 3.
The weakest planet in this chart is Mercury with a shadbala ratio of 0.523 and is placed in house 2.
