Alfredo Gobbi

Alfredo Julio Floro Gobbi (14 May 1912 - 21 May 1965) was a violin player, composer and bandleader in Argentina during the golden age of tango.

At 13 years old Gobbi debuted at a bar in Chacarita, in an ensemble with his friend Orlando Goñi and bandoneón player Domingo Triguero.

Later, he played in the orchestras of Juan Maglio Pacho, Roberto Firpo, Tirigall, Manuel Buzón, Anselmo Aieta, Pardo, with whom he released his tango Desvelo, Avile, and Antonio Rodio.

They left to form a sextet along with Aníbal Troilo and Alfredo Attadia on bandoneons, José Goñi on second violin, and Agustín Furchi on double bass.

Gobbi conducted and played the violin alongside the pianist Juan Olivero Pro, bandoneonists Deolindo Casaux, Toto D'Amario, Mario Demarco and Ernesto Rodríguez, double bassist Juan José Fantin, violinists Bernardo Hermino and Antonio Blanco, and the singers Julio Lucero (the pseudonym of Osvaldo Ribó), Walter Cabral, and Pablo Lozano.