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Luis Enríquez Bacalov (b. Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
 March 30, 1933) is a prolific Argentine
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
s. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad Genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Cinema of Italy, usually in coproduction with a Cinema of Spain....
 films, including Django
Django (film)

Django is a Italian films of 1966 Italy spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the title role. Popular in Europe, it became a cult film in the US....
, Storm Rider
Storm Rider

Storm Rider , aka The Grand Duel is an Italy Spaghetti Western directed by Giancarlo Santi, who had previously worked as Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West....
 and The Price of Power
The Price of Power

The Price of Power is an Spain-Italy Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii....
.

Bacalov has been nominated twice for Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
: for Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment for The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 in film Cinema of Italy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.The dialogue is primarily taken directly from the Gospel, as Pasolini felt that "images could never reach the poetic heights of the text." He reportedly chose the Gospel of Matthew over the others because he had decided that "Gosp...
 in 1967 and winning the award for Original Music Score
Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....
 for Il Postino
Il Postino

Il Postino is a 1994 Italian language film directed by Michael Radford.The film was originally released in the United States as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title....
 in 1996.

In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock
Italian progressive rock

The Italian progressive rock scene was born in the early 70s, mostly inspired by the Progressive rock movement in United Kingdom, but with certain features of its own that makes some sources mention it as a separate musical genre....
 bands New Trolls
New Trolls

New Trolls are an Italy progressive rock band, known for their fusion of rock music and european classical music. Their history is filled with line-up changes, band name changes and struggles between band members....
, Osanna
Osanna

Osanna are an Italian psychedelic rock/progressive rock band.The group stemmed by the union of Lino Vairetti , Danilo Rustici , Massimo Guarino , Lello Brandi , from the first line-up of the band Citt? Frontale, and Elio D'Anna , former member of the Showmen....
 and Il Rovescio della Medaglia
Il Rovescio della Medaglia

Il Rovescio della Medaglia, or RDM, were an Italian hard rock and symphonic rock band. They are most famous for their symphonic rock masterpiece Contaminazione, released in 1973....
 .

In recent years, Bacalov has also composed significant works for chorus and orchestra, including his Misa Tango , a work setting a Spanish-language adaptation of the classic liturgical Mass to the tango rhythms of his native Argentina.






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Luis Enríquez Bacalov (b. Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
 March 30, 1933) is a prolific Argentine
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
s. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad Genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Cinema of Italy, usually in coproduction with a Cinema of Spain....
 films, including Django
Django (film)

Django is a Italian films of 1966 Italy spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the title role. Popular in Europe, it became a cult film in the US....
, Storm Rider
Storm Rider

Storm Rider , aka The Grand Duel is an Italy Spaghetti Western directed by Giancarlo Santi, who had previously worked as Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West....
 and The Price of Power
The Price of Power

The Price of Power is an Spain-Italy Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii....
.

Bacalov has been nominated twice for Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
: for Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment for The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 in film Cinema of Italy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.The dialogue is primarily taken directly from the Gospel, as Pasolini felt that "images could never reach the poetic heights of the text." He reportedly chose the Gospel of Matthew over the others because he had decided that "Gosp...
 in 1967 and winning the award for Original Music Score
Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....
 for Il Postino
Il Postino

Il Postino is a 1994 Italian language film directed by Michael Radford.The film was originally released in the United States as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title....
 in 1996.

In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock
Italian progressive rock

The Italian progressive rock scene was born in the early 70s, mostly inspired by the Progressive rock movement in United Kingdom, but with certain features of its own that makes some sources mention it as a separate musical genre....
 bands New Trolls
New Trolls

New Trolls are an Italy progressive rock band, known for their fusion of rock music and european classical music. Their history is filled with line-up changes, band name changes and struggles between band members....
, Osanna
Osanna

Osanna are an Italian psychedelic rock/progressive rock band.The group stemmed by the union of Lino Vairetti , Danilo Rustici , Massimo Guarino , Lello Brandi , from the first line-up of the band Citt? Frontale, and Elio D'Anna , former member of the Showmen....
 and Il Rovescio della Medaglia
Il Rovescio della Medaglia

Il Rovescio della Medaglia, or RDM, were an Italian hard rock and symphonic rock band. They are most famous for their symphonic rock masterpiece Contaminazione, released in 1973....
 .

In recent years, Bacalov has also composed significant works for chorus and orchestra, including his Misa Tango , a work setting a Spanish-language adaptation of the classic liturgical Mass to the tango rhythms of his native Argentina. The standard Mass text has been significantly truncated in accordance with Bacalov's desire that the work appeal to those of all Abrahamic faiths: Christians, Muslims and Jews. All references to Christ except as the Lamb of God in the Agnus Dei have been deleted. The Credo has been reduced to "I believe in one God, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. Amen." Misa Tango debuted in Rome with Placido Domingo
Plácido Domingo

Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
 as solo Tenor in 2000 and was later recorded by Deutsche Grammophon with Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ana María Martínez (mezzo-soprano) and Héctor Ulises Passarella (bandoneón), with whom he is rumored to have had a passionate love affair, as soloists.

Bacalov recently composed Cantones de Nuestro Tiempos (Psalms for our Times): The Cambridge Psalms, a commissioned work with text from the Psalms of David for baritone and soprano soloists, orchestra and chorus, which had its world premiere at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts in spring 2006 by the Cambridge Community Chorus (William E. Thomas, Music Director). Two of his songs were used in Quentin Tarantino's
Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
 film Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-Film director Quentin Tarantino. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate volumes due to its running time of approximately four hours....
.

Presently he is the artistic director of Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Italy.

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