Astor Piazzolla

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-03-11

Deathday 1992-07-04 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Astor Piazzolla

Biography

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer, film composer, bandoneon player and arranger. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of tango music".

Known For

Sound

2019
María de Buenos Aires

as Original Music Composer

2003
Microscopías

as Music

2002
1994
1994
1992
The Journey

as Original Music Composer

1992
Eggshells

as Music

1988
Enligt beslut

as Music

1988
The South

as Music

1988
The South

as Musician

1985
Tango

as Music

1985
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

as Original Music Composer

1984
Henry IV

as Original Music Composer

1982
Are We?

as Music

1982
Neon City

as Music

1982
1982
To Return

as Music

1981
Paris s'en va

as Original Music Composer

1980
The Intruder

as Original Music Composer

1977
Armageddon

as Music

1977
1976
Lumière

as Original Music Composer

1975
When the City Awakes

as Original Music Composer

1975
Rain over Santiago

as Original Music Composer

1973
The Return

as Music

1970
1969
Impasse

as Music

1969
Kuma-Ching

as Original Music Composer

1969
Brief Heaven

as Music

1969
The Slowness

as Original Music Composer

1967
Las pirañas

as Original Music Composer

1966
Las locas del conventillo

as Original Music Composer

1965
1964
Extraña ternura

as Original Music Composer

1963
1963
La fin del mundo

as Music Director

1963
Paula Cautiva

as Music

1960
The Furies

as Music

1960
El crack

as Music

1960
Saturday Night, Cinema

as Original Music Composer

1958
Dos basuras

as Songs

1957
A Difficult Widow

as Original Music Composer

1956
Marta Ferrari

as Music

1956
The Bitter Stems

as Original Music Composer

1953
Stella Maris

as Music

1950
El cielo en las manos

as Original Music Composer

1950

Actor

2018
Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark

as Self (archive footage)

2017
2017
Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

as Self (archive footage)

1988
Siempre lunes

as Self - Guest

1985
Astor Piazzolla en Shams

as Self - Bandoneon

1983
Bei Bio

as Self

1982
1975
Numéro un

as Self

1972
1969
1967
1935
El día que me quieras

as Newspaper's kid