Astor Piazzolla

Known for SoundBorn 1921-03-11Died 1992-07-04Mar 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".Read more

Movies & web series

Gaivotas

What's Autumn?

Impasse

El nacimiento de un libro

Operación Antartida

Kuma-Ching

La fin del mundo

Los simuladores

Historia de una carta

Marta Ferrari

El cielo en las manos

Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

María de Buenos Aires

The Return

Le Grand Échiquier

Fuelle querido

Con gusto a rabia

Detrás de la mentira

Last year of Nacional High School

Dos basuras

Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango

Violencia en la ciudad

Steel racing cars

El hombre del sábado

Tango argentino

Numéro un

Argentinísima

Cuarteles de invierno

The Furies

Prisioneros de una noche

Las locas del conventillo

Quereme así (Piantao)

Enligt beslut

The Slowness

The Bitter Stems

Le Pont du Nord

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark

Lumière

Champs-Elysées

Con los mismos colores

The South

The Color of Love

Henry IV

Paula Cautiva

Rain over Santiago

La ñata contra el vidrio

El infierno tan temido