Justo Tomás Morales (1877-1953) began as a self-taught guitarist, but soon had Alejandro Cesáreo Pérez, Pedro Rubione, Mario Rodríguez Arenas, and Domingo Prat as his teachers. His musical personality blooms in his work as a composer dedicated to Argentine music. Domingo Prat praises many of his qualities: “Doubtless he is a talent full of inspiration whose work will last, cele-brated in its folkloric pages, which he knows how to imbue with an unmistakable Argentine flavor”. Morales was the author of more than one hundred works, of which fifty were published. He was an outstanding educator and was in demand by distinguished members of Buenos Aires society, while some of his compositions were performed by outstanding guitarists such as María Luisa Anido.
(Analía Rego, Introduction “More Tangos Milongas Habaneras”, Editions Orphée, 2005)