Luis Bacalov

Luis Enríquez Bacalov ( born March 30, 1933, Buenos Aires ) is an Oscar - excellent Argentinian film composer.

Career

Bacalov began his career in Italy, where he was Ennio Morricone, as well as with RCA Records. With Morricone since it combines a long-standing friendship. He has composed for musicians like Gianni Morandi, Dino and Rita Pavone. In the early 1960s he began working as an arranger and composer working in film, including for The Naked with Horst Buchholz and Bette Davis. For Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew, he was nominated in 1967 (among other things beside Elmer Bernstein) for an Oscar, but lost Ken Thorne. During the 1960s and 1970s Bacalov wrote the music for numerous spaghetti westerns, besides Django with Franco Nero in the title role, among others, three Our ​​Father for four scoundrels with Lee Van Cleef, as well as the theme song for the Bud - Spencer - Western comedy The thickness in Mexico. For the film Kill Amigo with Klaus Kinski, he wrote the entire soundtrack, the producers used but for promotional reasons rather more renowned Morricone. During the 1980s Bacalov worked mainly for television productions. 1996 he managed a comeback when he won the Oscar for best film music for The Postman, after previously Morricone had turned down the offer. 2003 used two Quentin Tarantino spaghetti western title of Bacalov for its two parts of Kill Bill, 2012, the title song of Django for its homage to the Western genre, Django Unchained.

Bacalov also wrote classical pieces for choirs and orchestras, including Misa Tango, which was premiered in 2000 in Rome, with Plácido Domingo as a tenor.

Filmography (selection)