Astor Piazzolla
March 11, 1921 (103 years old) in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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
Credits
- 2018 · Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Tango in Paris: Memories of Astor Piazzolla as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel as Self - Composer
- 2007 · Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango as Self
- 1997 · Quereme así (Piantao) as Self
- 1990 · Astor Piazzolla in Portrait as Self
- 1988 · Siempre lunes as Self - Guest
- 1986 · Chico & Caetano as
- 1985 · Astor Piazzolla en Shams as Self - Bandoneon
- 1983 · Bei Bio as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1972 · Argentinísima as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1969 · Tango argentino as Self
- 1967 · Fuelle querido as Self
- 1962 · Prisioneros de una noche as
- 1950 · El cielo en las manos as
- 1947 · El hombre del sábado as
- 1935 · El día que me quieras as Newspaper's kid