Juan de Dios Filiberto

[2] The advent of organized labor in Argentina and poor working conditions helped lead Filiberto and most of his colleagues to join the stevedores' union affiliated with the Argentine Workers' Federation, where he supported an anarchist line and actively participated in a series of strikes in 1907.

A gift of a ticket to a Teatro Coliseo performance of Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda resulted in an argument the following day, when Filiberto's negative opinion of the tenor's voice met with his friend's dismissive reply.

"[4] He secured a post as a machine assistant at Buenos Aires' famed Colón Theater, where a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony inspired him to join the local Pezzini-Stianessi music conservatory, in 1909.

There, he studied the violin, music theory and solfège and eventually, he was granted a scholarship to attend maestro Alberto Williams' prestigious National Conservatory, where he was given lessons on counterpoint, piano and guitar.

[1] Chronic health problems and the advice of Dr. José Ingenieros, his friend and a prominent local physician, led Filiberto to relocate to the dry climes of Guaymallén, a suburb of Mendoza.

[citation needed] With lyrics by Gabino Coria Peñaloza, the 1926 ode to a La Rioja Province rural road to which sentimental memories were attached, it became one of the most recognizable tangos.