Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

La Cumparsita Music Sheet

Explore the La Cumparsita virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes. La Cumparsita is a tango composed by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez. Written in the mid-1910s, it has become one of the most widely recognized pieces in the tango repertoire. The piece began as an instrumental written by a young Matos Rodríguez and was later performed and published in the tango world. Lyrics were added by other writers in the years that followed, giving the work both an instrumental and a sung history. The selected catalog item is a community piano solo arrangement. Its keyboard version belongs to that arrangement rather than to the earliest performances of the tango.

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Who composed La Cumparsita?

The tango was composed by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez.

When was it written?

It was written in the mid-1910s, before it became a tango standard.

Does it have lyrics?

The work began as an instrumental; lyrics were added later by other writers.

Is the piano score the original?

No. It is a community piano solo arrangement of the tango.