Astor Piazzolla
Born: 1921-03-11 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 1992-07-04
Known For: Sound
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".
Filmography
2025
- Armonie di Speranza ... (Original Music Composer)
- Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio Jazz sous les Pommiers 2025 ... (Original Music Composer)
2024
- Milva, diva per sempre as Himself
- Wartime Elegy - Une soirée de ballet à l'Opéra national d'Ukraine ... (Sound)
- Lucienne Renaudin Vary - Schleswig-Holstein Festival 2024 ... (Original Music Composer)
2023
- Astor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires Grand Théâtre de Genève ... (Original Music Composer)
2022
- Quinteto Astor Piazzolla - Philharmonie de Paris ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- ¡Felicidades Piazzolla! ... (Original Music Composer)
2020
- The Lying Angel ... (Music)
2019
- María de Buenos Aires ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Los Amantes del Tigre ... (Music)
- Tango in Paris: Memories of Astor Piazzolla as Self (archive footage)
- Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel as Self - Composer
- Tres Desinteresados y un Amante ... (Music)
- Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili ... (Music)
2012
- Salvatore Accardo and the Italian Chamber Orchestra in Concert ... (Compositor)
2008
- Astor Piazzolla - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival as Self - bandoneon
2007
- Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango as Self
2003
- Microscopías ... (Music)
2002
- Los simuladores ... (Songs)
1997
- Quereme así (Piantao) as Self
1995
- The Lion with the White Beard ... (Music)
1994
- The Color of Love ... (Music)
- Ett sommarspel ... (Music)
1992
- The Journey ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eggshells ... (Music)
1990
- Astor Piazzolla in Portrait as Self
1988
- The South ... (Music)
- Siempre lunes as Self - Guest
- Enligt beslut ... (Music)
1986
1985
- Tangos, the Exile of Gardel ... (Music)
- Tango ... (Music)
- Este año comen un día no y el otro tampoco ... (Music)
- Astor Piazzolla en Shams as Self - Bandoneon
1984
- Cuarteles de invierno ... (Music)
- Henry IV ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ein Bett mit Passagieren ... (Music)
- Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto Tango Nuevo - Vredenburg Music Hall as Self - bandoneon
1983
- Bei Bio as Self
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Neon City ... (Music)
- To Return ... (Music)
- Le Pont du Nord ... (Music)
- Are We? ... (Music)
1981
- Paris s'en va ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- The Intruder ... (Original Music Composer)
- El infierno tan temido ... (Music)
1979
- Gaivotas ... (Theme Song Performance)
1977
- Armageddon ... (Music)
- What's Autumn? ... (Music)
1976
- Lumière ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Rain over Santiago ... (Original Music Composer)
- When the City Awakes ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- The Return ... (Music)
- All Nudity Shall Be Punished ... (Music)
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Argentinísima as Self
- La ñata contra el vidrio ... (Sound)
1971
- La mitad de un día ... (Music)
1970
- Con alma y vida ... (Music)
- El principio del fin ... (Music)
1969
- The Slowness ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kuma-Ching ... (Original Music Composer)
- Impasse ... (Music)
- Brief Heaven ... (Music)
- Tango argentino as Self
1967
- Fuelle querido as Self
- Las pirañas ... (Original Music Composer)
1966
- Las locas del conventillo ... (Original Music Composer)
1965
- Con gusto a rabia ... (Music)
1964
- Extraña ternura ... (Original Music Composer)
1963
- La fin del mundo ... (Music Director)
- Those who will see God ... (Music)
- Paula Cautiva ... (Music)
- El nacimiento de un libro ... (Music)
1962
- Detrás de la mentira ... (Music)
- Prisioneros de una noche
1961
- Last year of Nacional High School ... (Music)
1960
- El crack ... (Music)
- Saturday Night, Cinema ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Furies ... (Music)
1958
- Dos basuras ... (Songs)
1957
- Operación Antartida ... (Music)
- A Difficult Widow ... (Original Music Composer)
- Historia de una carta ... (Music)
- Violencia en la ciudad ... (Music)
1956
- The Bitter Stems ... (Original Music Composer)
- Marta Ferrari ... (Music)
1954
- Sucedió en Buenos Aires ... (Music)
1953
- Stella Maris ... (Music)
1950
- El cielo en las manos
- Steel racing cars ... (Music)
1949
- Con los mismos colores ... (Music)
1947
1935
- El día que me quieras as Niño diariero