Lalo Schifrin, the impossible mission composer, died at the age of 93

The Argentinian musician has signed inombrable music of films and TV series, including Bullit, Inspector Harry, Luke La Main Crois or Starsky and Hutch.

The immense Lalo Schifrin Leave us this Thursday of pneumonia. The composer was 93 years old, and leaves behind a prolific and striking work, like the legendary music of the credits of Mission : Impossiblebroadcast for the first time on television in 1966. A theme so powerful that he accompanied the Tom Cruise saga in the cinema for 30 years, until the last film still on the bill.

With this only score, Lalo Schifrin can claim the rank of icon. And he made more than a hundred during his career. Both for the big and the small screen. Foulins by René Clément (with Alain Delon and Jane Fonda), Boil, Inspector Harry, Operation Dragon, Luke the cold hand, THX 1138, Gold for the brave, Amityville , Mannix, Starsky Hutch… Schifrin is simply the soundtrack of the 1960s and 1970s.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1932, the pianist and composer marked the world of music with his own style and this Latin touch which has seduced so much in the United States and Europe. Also comfortable with the trumpet of jazz Dizzy Gillespie as to direct a symphonic orchestra, it was also an artist who is involved and recognized by his peers, who marked popular culture without ever betraying herself.

Lalo Schifrin lived in Paris during the 1950s, after having passed and succeeded in the national conversation competition. He studies the day and performs at night in Saint-Germain jazz clubs. Then begins his professional career as a pianist by working in particular for the label of Eddie Barclay. He also frequented the French Cinémathèque, which dedicated a retrospective to him in November 2016. The same month, he received the medal of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.