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Tango By Juan Carlos Cobiŕn (1896-1953)
Juan Carlos Cobián was an authentic innovator of tango, either as player or as composer. As a pianist, he was the first to fill in the bass line with embellishments when the melody rests -a procedure that later would be systematized by Francisco De Caro-, besides his subtlety in the interpretation.
As a composer he is, alongside Enrique Delfino, the creator of the so-called “tango-romanza”; in 1917 the latter composed "Sans Souci", and Cobián wrote "Salomé", with which they paved the road for avant-garde tango. To such an extent, Cobián was an evolutionist that the publishers did not accept his early tangos because they regarded them as “wrongly composed”. The truth is that they were far beyond the popular music of the time.