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- Birth nameGiuseppe Bragato
- José Bragato was born on October 12, 1915 in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He is known for The Official Story (1985) and Tango (1998). He was married to Herminia Domínguez. He died on July 18, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- SpouseHerminia Domínguez(1943 - 2001) (her death, 3 children)
- He was a co-founder of the Channel 13 orchestra, together with the Italian musician Lucio Milena, and joined Leo Lipesker and the Primer Cuarteto de Cámara del Tango.
- Apart from his numerous performances with Piazzolla, José spent much of his time making arrangements of Piazzolla's music for duos, trios, string quartets and full orchestras which have helped to bring tango to a wide international audience.
- José Bragato was born in Udine, Italy, in 1915 into a family of musicians, the fourth child of Enrico Bragato and Erminia Castronin. His father and his father's elder brother, Giuseppe, were both flautists.
- While playing at the Colón Theatre orchestra José was playing cello in several chamber music string quartets, including the Buenos Aires Quartet and the Carlos Pessina Quartet. Alongside this he was also playing in tango orchestras, including the Orquesta Francini-Pontier formed by the violinist Enrique Mario Francini and the bandoneonist Armando Pontier, and was beginning to compose.
- José continued to study piano whilst in 1930 Bruno joined the orchestra of the Colón Theatre as a flautist and his father was playing flute in various city orchestras. That same year the city of Buenos Aires suffered severe flooding as the River Plate overflowed its banks and the Bragato family lost everything, including José's piano.
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