Piazzolla composed “Adiós Nonino” (Goodbye, Grandfather) in October 1959, following the sudden death of his father, Vicente “Nonino” Piazzolla. The composer was in New York City at the time, struggling with a sense of loneliness and failure. When the news arrived, he broke down and improvised at the piano, reworking a theme he had written years earlier for a piece called “Triunfal.”
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In 1959, Piazzolla was touring in Puerto Rico with his quintet when he received the devastating news: his father, Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla, had died in a car accident. Paralyzed by sorrow and unable to attend the funeral in New York, Astor sat at a piano and poured his rage, sadness, and love into a musical eulogy. Paralyzed by sorrow and unable to attend the
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