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Luis Bacalov

1933 - 2017

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Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine (naturalized Italian) film composer and musical director. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim - conductor of the Berlin and Chicago orchestras, and from Berta Sujovolsky. He ventured into music for the cinema, and composed now-classic scores for many Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s he also collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luis Bacalov is the 512th most popular composer (up from 546th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 125th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Argentinean Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Luis Bacalov ranks 512 out of 1,451. Before him are Robert Fuchs, Joseph Kosma, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Fredrik Pacius, Kaija Saariaho, and Johann Ludwig Bach. After him are Bill Conti, Leroy Anderson, Jean Françaix, Reinhard Keiser, Jean Absil, and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Luis Bacalov ranks 141. Before him are Joachim Meisner, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Sandra Milo, Shigeo Yaegashi, Maurice André, and Katharine, Duchess of Kent. After him are Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Frits Bolkestein, Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, John Gurdon, Bob Bennett, and Fred Haise. Among people deceased in 2017, Luis Bacalov ranks 121. Before him are Tsutomu Hata, Colin Dexter, Joachim Meisner, Karin Dor, Don Rickles, and Konstantinos Mitsotakis. After him are George Young, Robert Hardy, Richard Hatch, Juan Goytisolo, William H. Keeler, and Lyudmila Chernykh.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Luis Bacalov ranks 112 out of 1,154. Before him are Héctor Germán Oesterheld (1919), Alejandro Sabella (1954), Diego Milito (1979), Libertad Lamarque (1908), Héctor Babenco (1946), and Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908). After him are Ricardo Darín (1957), Julio Argentino Roca (1843), Justo José de Urquiza (1801), Sergio Agüero (1988), Juan Román Riquelme (1978), and Guillermo Mordillo (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In Argentina

Among composers born in Argentina, Luis Bacalov ranks 5. Before him are Astor Piazzolla (1921), Alberto Ginastera (1916), Mauricio Kagel (1931), and Ariel Ramírez (1921). After him are Carlos Guastavino (1912), Mariano Mores (1918), and Osvaldo Golijov (1960).

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