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Lalo Schifrin
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Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor (1932–2025)
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Lalo Schifrin was an Argentine male composer and conductor whose career spanned from 1950 to 2025. Born on June 21, 1932, he passed away on June 26, 2025. He had three children. His musical output included works in the big band, jazz, and instrumental genres, with specific compositions such as *Pampas*, *Concerto for Piano, Jazz Trumpet and Orchestra*, *Jazz Mass*, and *Tango para Percusion*.
Schifrin’s work has been associated with tags including jazz, soundtrack, funk, and movie score composition. He was recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. His discography and writings have been cataloged across various platforms, with Open Library listing seventeen works and Crossref citing five.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Pampas
- Concerto for Piano, Jazz Trumpet and Orchestra : (Piano Reduction Score)
- Jazz Mass
- Concerto for Piano, Jazz Trumpet and Orchestra
- Tango para Percusion
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Argentina
- Active from
- 1932-06-21
- Active to
- 2025-06-26
Discography
- Rendez-vous dansant à Copacabana1955
- Piano Español1959
- Bossa Nova: New Brazilian Jazz1962
- Lalo = Brilliance (The Piano Of Lalo Schifrin)1962
- Samba Para Dos1963
- New Fantasy1964
- There’s a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin’ On1968
- Rock Requiem1971
- The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past1973
- Black Widow1976
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 323,672
- Total plays
- 2,944,171
Tags
Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025) was an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He was best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestrations. He was a five-time Grammy Award winner; he was nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards. Schifrin's best known compositions included the themes from Mission: Impossible and Mannix <a hr
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Existing Motor State Is Favored at the Expense of New Movement during 13-35 Hz Oscillatory Synchrony in the Human Corticospinal System
· 2005 · cited 330x
- NMDA Receptors Mediate Neuron-to-Glia Signaling in Mouse Cortical Astrocytes
· 2006 · cited 307x
- LIONSIMBA: A Matlab Framework Based on a Finite Volume Model Suitable for Li-Ion Battery Design, Simulation, and Control
· 2016 · cited 286x
- Fully Integrated Artificial Pancreas in Type 1 Diabetes
· 2012 · cited 278x
- Vesicular release of ATP at central synapses
· 2006 · cited 272x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Boris Claudio Schifrin , ( 1932-06-21 ) June 21, 1932, Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Died
- June 26, 2025 (2025-06-26) (aged 93), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Education
- University of Buenos Aires Conservatoire de Paris
- Genres
- Film score jazz big band rock contemporary classical
- Occupations
- Musician composer arranger conductor
- Instruments
- Piano keyboards
- Years active
- 1952–2025
- Labels
- Tico Roulette Audio Fidelity MGM Verve Colpix Colgems Dot Warner Bros. Paramount EntrActe CTI Tabu Palo Alto Atlantic Aleph
- Spouses
- Sylvia Schon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 , divorced ) Donna Cockrell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlalo ˈʃifɾin]; June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025) was an Argentine and American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. Initially prominent as a jazz composer, he was best known for his large body of film and television scores, which incorporates jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestration.
Schifrin's best known compositions include the themes from T.H.E. Cat (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Mannix (1967), as well as the scores to Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), THX 1138 (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979) and the Rush Hour trilogy (1998–2007). Schifrin was also noted for collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry film series. He composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lalo Schifrin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.