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At a young age, the Italian family moved to Montevideo, where his father eventually became the conductor of a chamber orchestra.
Edgar started studying music at the age of ten. He started his career in the opera, with a stiff collar and a serious look, despite the fact that he was and remained a born humorist, including when playing the violin.
But soon he was able to join a group of the Argentinian bandoneonist El Negro Quevedo.
He lost his first composition to the paving stones, but two years later he was successful after its interpretation in a theater in Buenos Aires.
Soon after, he composed A Media Luz, an enduring hit. “I composed A Media Luz while riding on a tram,” the composer later said.
In 1927 he formed an orchestra with violinist Roberto Zerrillo, which quickly became successful, they were called the 9 tango aces: “the most remarkable tango orchestra ever heard”. In 1930 the orchestra fell apart.
In the orchestra that Donato later founded, the phrasing was wrapped in a broader dynamic; Edgardo’s bandoneons and violin solos were also given more space, with his famous pizzicatos also standing out.
His orchestra was a dance orchestra with few aspirations for style, in keeping with his cheerful, forgetful mood.