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".

Filmography

• 2025Armonie di Speranza — Original Music Composer
• 2025Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio Jazz sous les Pommiers 2025 — Original Music Composer
• 2025Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025 — Music
• 2024Lucienne Renaudin Vary - Schleswig-Holstein Festival 2024 — Original Music Composer
• 2024Private concert at Gidon Kremer's home — Original Music Composer
• 2024Wartime Elegy - An evening of ballet at the National Opera of Ukraine — Sound
• 2023Astor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires Grand Théâtre de Genève — Original Music Composer
• 2023Gustavo Dudamel at the Paris Opera With artists from the Académie — Original Music Composer
• 2022Contemporary Tango — Original Music Composer
• 2022Quinteto Astor Piazzolla - Philharmonie de Paris — Original Music Composer
• 2021¡Felicidades Piazzolla! — Original Music Composer
• 2020The Lying Angel — Music
• 2019Concerto di Carnevale — Original Music Composer
• 2019María de Buenos Aires — Original Music Composer
• 2017Los Amantes del Tigre — Music
• 2017Tres Desinteresados y un Amante — Music
• 2013Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili — Music
• 2012Salvatore Accardo and the Italian Chamber Orchestra in Concert — Compositor
• 2003Microscopías — Music
• Los simuladores — Songs
• 1997Quereme así (Piantao) — Self, Music
• 1995The Lion with the White Beard — Music
• 1994Ett sommarspel — Music
• 1994The Color of Love — Music
• 1992Eggshells — Music
• 1992The Journey — Original Music Composer
• 1989Es werde Licht — Music
• 1988Enligt beslut — Music
• 1988The South — Musician, Original Music Composer
• 1987Parlez-moi du Che — Music
• Chico & Caetano
• 1985Este año comen un día no y el otro tampoco — Music
• 1985Tango — Music
• 1985Tangos, the Exile of Gardel — Music, Original Music Composer
• 1984Cuarteles de invierno — Music
• 1984Ein Bett mit Passagieren — Music
• 1984Henry IV — Original Music Composer
• 1982Are We? — Music
• 1982Le Pont du Nord — Original Music Composer
• 1982Neon City — Music
• 1982To Return — Music
• 1981Barbara — Music
• 1981Paris s'en va — Original Music Composer
• 1980El infierno tan temido — Music
• 1979Deux femmes aujourd'hui — Compositor
• Gaivotas — Theme Song Performance, Music
• 1979The Intruder — Original Music Composer
• 1977Armageddon — Music
• 1977What's Autumn? — Music
• 1976Lumière — Original Music Composer
• 1975Rain over Santiago — Original Music Composer
• 1975When the City Awakes — Original Music Composer
• 1973All Nudity Shall Be Punished — Music
• 1973The Return — Music
• 1972Argentinísima — Él mismo
• 1972La ñata contra el vidrio — Sound
• 1971La mitad de un día — Music
• 1970Con alma y vida — Music
• 1970El principio del fin — Music
• 1969Brief Heaven — Music
• 1969Impasse — Music
• 1969Kuma-Ching — Original Music Composer
• 1969The Slowness — Original Music Composer
• 1967Las pirañas — Original Music Composer
• 1966Las locas del conventillo — Original Music Composer
• 1965Con gusto a rabia — Music
• 1964Extraña ternura — Original Music Composer
• 1963El nacimiento de un libro — Music
• 1963La fin del mundo — Music Director
• 1963Paula Cautiva — Music
• 1963Those who will see God — Music
• 1962Detrás de la mentira — Music
• 1962Prisioneros de una noche
• 1961Last year of Nacional High School — Music
• 1960El crack — Music
• 1960Saturday Night, Cinema — Original Music Composer
• 1960The Furies — Music
• 1958Dos basuras — Songs
• 1957A Difficult Widow — Original Music Composer
• 1957Historia de una carta — Music
• 1957Operación Antartida — Music
• 1957Violencia en la ciudad — Music
• 1956Marta Ferrari — Music
• 1956The Bitter Stems — Original Music Composer
• 1954Sucedió en Buenos Aires — Music
• 1953Stella Maris — Music
• 1950El cielo en las manos — Music, Original Music Composer
• 1950Steel racing cars — Music
• 1949Con los mismos colores — Music
• 1947El hombre del sábado
• 1935The Day You Love Me — Niño diariero

Appearances as themselves (18)

• 2024Milva, diva per sempre — Himself
• 2018Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Tango in Paris: Memories of Astor Piazzolla — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel — Self - Composer
• 2008Astor Piazzolla - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival — Self - bandoneon
• 2007Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango — Self
• 1990Astor Piazzolla in Portrait — Self
• Siempre lunes — Self - Guest
• 1985Astor Piazzolla en Shams — Self - Bandoneon
• 1984Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto Tango Nuevo - Vredenburg Music Hall — Self - bandoneon
• Bei Bio — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Numéro un — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• 1969Tango argentino — Self
• 1967Fuelle querido — Self