| Astor Piazzolla was the head of the Tango Nuevo | | | | tune. It was then that Astor Piazzolla's Adios Nonino |
| movement during the time that he was writing Adios | | | | was born. |
| Nonino in 1959. Piazzolla was entirely of Italian decent, | | | | Adios Nonino became one of the most popular pieces |
| with two very Italian parents. His daughter gave them | | | | that Piazzolla had ever written. He declared later that |
| traditional Italian names for grandma and grandpa, | | | | he was "Surrounded by angels", and that "He probably |
| Nonino and Nonina. One of the things that Piazzolla | | | | could do not it again, this being the finest tune he's ever |
| was involved in during the time was the music direction | | | | written". Piazzolla tweaked and redid his Adios Nonino |
| of a dance team called the Juan Carlos Copes, who | | | | and rewrote at least twenty more arrangements of |
| travelled to Puerto Rico in 1959. On the last night of | | | | the same tango. The song had no words, and |
| their trip to San Juan, Piazzolla received a telegram | | | | Piazzolla intended to keep it that way. After the death |
| saying his father had fallen off of his motorcycle and | | | | of his father, he was inspired to go back to Argentina |
| was in critical condition. Piazzolla discovered the next | | | | and write more authentic music with his American |
| day that his father had died the next day at noon. One | | | | experiences. Lacking the money for the travel, he sent |
| he was back home, he asked everyone to be left | | | | Adios Nonino to his publisher. His publisher was |
| alone for a while. No one ever heard him cry, but his | | | | ecstatic, calling it the crown jewel of tangos. Piazzolla |
| wife heard him sigh while writing a bright and happy | | | | then made his way to Argentina. |
