The Chantecler Cabaret

The Chantecler was a cabaret that ran in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina in a building built for this purpose on 440 Paraná Street a few meters from Corrientes Avenue, between December 1924 and 1960, the year it stopped working and was demolished. It was the property of the French citizen Charles According and its audience was nurtured by artists, politicians, tourists and wealthy people who came to drink, eat, dance and watch the shows, in which those linked to tango prevailed.
It was inaugurated in December 1924 and during the 30s it was also called “Vieux Paris” and its front was decorated with a mill and details of Montmartre.

The name of the site is taken from French, a language that was synonymous with culture among the intellectuals and the wealthy class of Buenos Aires at that time, and means "sing clear." The first known Chantecler in the Río de la Plata was a cabaret that had been operating since 1910 in Montevideo, owned by Emilio Matos, father of Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, which had initially been called “Moulin Rouge”, then “Campi” and, finally, until its closing, “Chanteclair”.

You can visit our article on the history of the Buenos Aires cabarets.

The Julio de Caro's orchestra, the best at that time, performed at the inauguration, with him as violinist and conductor; his brothers Emilio (second violin) and Francisco at the piano. Pedro Laurenz and Pedro Maffia were on the bandoneons and Ruperto Thompson on 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 idle 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 venue no longer worked, but the building still existed, Enrique Cadícamo wrote the lyrics and music of a tango, dismissing it with the title of Goodbye Chantecler.

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