It is appropriate to pay tribute on this website to Alfredo Marcucci without whom none of this would exist and who has profoundly influenced my life as a musician and human being.

 

 

 

After an intense career with the greatest Argentine tango orchestras in the 1940s and 1950s, the Argentinian bandoneon master Alfredo Marcucci settled in Flanders in the 1960s. He was also a regular member of "Los Paraguayos" with which he captured several gold records in the 60s and 70s and enjoyed worldwide success. He was also the founder of the revival of Argentine tango music in Europe in the early 1980s, partly at the hands of Dirk Van Esbroeck and Juan Masondo, with whom he founded the ensemble Tango al Sur. In the early 1990s he taught tango music in Neufchâteau and Brussels and founded the Belgian tango orchestra Veritango with which he toured Europe until shortly before his death in 2010.

His family donated the instrument he played to the MIM in Brussels, where it can still be seen.

We remember Alfredo Marcucci as an extremely humble, generous and warm personality. He was also able to express these traits masterfully in his music.