Luis Bacalov

Luis Enríquez Bacalov is a prolific Argentine composer of film scores. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western films, including Django, Storm Rider and The Price of Power. Bacalov has been nominated twice for Academy Awards: for Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment for The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini) in 1964 and winning the award for Original Music Score for Il Postino in 1996. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands New Trolls, Osanna and Il Rovescio della Medaglia. In recent years, Bacalov has also composed significant works for chorus and orchestra.