Artist
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez appears once in our Tango list, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Tango
- Year
- 1916
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Tango
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
La Cumparsita
1916
Ranked No. 1 in Tango
Written by a Uruguayan student and now the tune every tango evening ends with, everywhere on earth. Its authorship was litigated for decades, which is very much in the spirit of the thing.