"Vicente López y Planes" SADAIC Museum

Lavalle 1547 - 1st Floor
Tel. 4379-8600 - Extension 8539
Open Mondays through
Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Holidays: January

This is a place for remembrance and emotion. There are portraits of Carlos Gardel, Eduardo Arolas, Ángel Villoldo, Azucena Maizani, Pedro Maffia, Ignacio Corsini, Ant'bal Troilo, Juan de Dios Filiberto, Anselmo Aieta and Paquita Bernardo (first woman "bandoneón" player [a "bandoneón" is a large concertina used esp. in Argentina]. Also en exhibition are the pianos belonging to Enrique Santos Discépolo and Armando Baliotti; the "quena" [Indian reed flute] that belonged to Mr. Andrés Chazarreta ; a fife that belonged to Mr. Hilario Cuadros ; guitars that belonged to Gardel (as well as a dressing gown, a handkerchief and a photocopy of his will), José Razzano and Enrique Maciel; the bandoneones that belonged to Eduardo Arolas and Osvaldo Fresedo; the violins of Ernesto Ponzio, Hugo Baralis and Edgardo Donato, and Julio de Caro´s amplifying violin; Mario Batistella´s mandolin, and Francisco Lomuto´s tambourines. The bust and a portrait of Francisco Canaro, the first president of SADAIC (1937), and other historic photographs offer a view of the different associations of authors, composers and editors that preceded SADAIC, that was founded in 1936. Amongst the exhibits, there are several objects that belonged to Félix Pérez Cardoso, Agustín Bardi, Gabino Coria Peñaloza, Vicente Greco, and Homero Manzi's death mask. There are also old musical scores and books (among them, the history of the institution written by Jesús Martínez Moirón), as well as an image of St. Cecilia, patron saint of Music.
Amongst the latest donations, there is a painting of the singer Carlos Dante, a member of Alfredo de Ángelis' group; the saw and violin bow that belonged to Caldarella, and were used to compose the tango "Canaro en París", and the guitar that belonged to Agustín Valentín Cabral, father of the composer of tango lyrics, Fedora Cabral.