COMPOSER

Luis Bacalov

1933 - 2017

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Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine-born film composer. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim - conductor of the Berlin and Chicago orchestras, and from Berta Sujovolsky. He ventured into music for the cinema, and composed scores for Spaghetti Western films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Bacalov has received more than 280,306 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Luis Bacalov is the 546th most popular composer (down from 491st in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 98th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Argentinean Composer.

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  • 56.18

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Luis Bacalov ranks 546 out of 1,451. Before him are Ernest Guiraud, Gara Garayev, Pietro Nardini, Gershon Kingsley, Johannes Ciconia, and Hans Krása. After him are Frederick Delius, Jean-François Le Sueur, Hermann Abendroth, Stephen Sondheim, Johann Crüger, and William Walton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Luis Bacalov ranks 136. Before him are Ko Un, Joachim Kroll, Lubomyr Husar, Vera Krepkina, Sheldon Adelson, and Julie Newmar. After him are Dianne Feinstein, Hannelore Kohl, Mátyás Szűrös, Vassilis Vassilikos, Godfried Danneels, and Bernadette Chirac. Among people deceased in 2017, Luis Bacalov ranks 127. Before him are Robert James Waller, Lubomyr Husar, Jerry Fodor, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Tsutomu Hata, and Igor Shafarevich. After him are Lyudmila Chernykh, Pierre Henry, Violet Brown, Mustafa Tlass, Miguel Ferrer, and Bayezid Osman.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Luis Bacalov ranks 125 out of 1,154. Before him are Sergio Goycochea (1963), Amadeo Carrizo (1926), Ángel Di María (1988), Gabriela Sabatini (1970), Javier Saviola (1981), and Joseph Kessel (1898). After him are Attilio Demaría (1909), Justo José de Urquiza (1801), Enrique Guaita (1910), Arturo Umberto Illia (1900), Alfio Basile (1943), and Gato Barbieri (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In Argentina

Among composers born in Argentina, Luis Bacalov ranks 5. Before him are Astor Piazzolla (1921), Alberto Ginastera (1916), Ariel Ramírez (1921), and Mauricio Kagel (1931). After him are Carlos Guastavino (1912), Mariano Mores (1918), and Osvaldo Golijov (1960).

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