The Chantecler Cabaret

El Chantecler was a cabaret that operated in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina in a building built for this purpose at 440 Paraná Street, a few meters from Corrientes Avenue, between December 1924 and 1960, the year it stopped working and was demolished. It was owned by the French citizen Charles According to and its attendance was nourished by artists, politicians, tourists and wealthy people who came to drink, eat, dance and witness the shows, in which those linked to tango prevailed.
Se inauguró en diciembre de 1924 y durante la década del 30 también se lo llamó «Vieux Paris» y su frente estaba decorado con un molino y detalles de Montmartre.

El nombre del sitio está tomado del francés, una lengua que era sinónimo de cultura entre los intelectuales y la clase adinerada del Buenos Aires de esa época, y significa “canta claro”. El primer Chantecler conocido en el Río de la Plata fue un cabaré que funcionó desde 1910 en Montevideo, propiedad de Emilio Matos, padre de Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, que inicialmente se había llamado «Moulin Rouge», luego «Campi» y, finalmente hasta su clausura, «Chanteclair».

You can visit our article on the history of cabarets of buenos aires.

At the inauguration, the Julio de Caro orchestra performed, the best at the time, with him as violinist and conductor; his brothers Emilio (second violin) and Francisco on piano. Pedro Laurenz and Pedro Maffia played the bandoneons and Ruperto Thompson played the double bass. De Caro alternated on gala nights with a group led by a young Juan D'Arienzo, thus contrasting two absolutely different rhythms and styles: De Caro, who favored melody, and D'Arienzo, who was pure rhythm.

The Chantecler was demolished in 1960 after being inactive for some time. In homage to the cabaret, Juan Polito, Carlos Ángel Lazzari and Ángel Roque Gatti composed the tango Glorioso Chantecler and, when the place no longer worked, but the building still existed, Enrique Cadícamo wrote the lyrics and music of a tango dismissing him with the title of Goodbye Chantecler.

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