Luis Bacalov

Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine-born Italian composer of movie scores. He was born in Buenos Aires.

In the early 1970s, he worked with Italian progressive rock bands.  Bacalov has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, winning it in 1996 for Il Postino."The 1996 Oscar Winners". Associated Press via the New York Times. March 27, 1996. Retrieved 24 June 2017. He was the artistic director of the Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Italy.

Bacalov died in Rome on 15 November 2017 of leukemia at the age of 84.

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Category:Academy Award winning composers
Category:1933 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:20th-century Italian composers
Category:Writers from Buenos Aires
Category:Musicians from Buenos Aires
Category:Argentine composers