Francisco Canaro
As a composer, in 1884 he authored the music to famous tango "Concha Sucia" ("Dirty Cunt" in Argentine slang), which decades later would be renamed "Cara Sucia" ("Dirty Face"), with music rearranged by Francisco Canaro. Alcorta is also known to have composed the tango "La yapa", later renamed "Entrada prohibida" ("Forbidden entry") and credited to brothers Teisseire. Alcorta died in Buenos Aires in 1913, in the arms of Paulina.