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Nino Rota

Profession
Sound
Born
December 3, 1911 · Milano, Lombardia, Italia
Died
April 10, 1979

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.

Known for

The Godfather poster
The Godfather
Film · 1972 · ★ 8.7
The Godfather Part II poster
The Godfather Part II
Film · 1974 · ★ 8.6
The Godfather Part III poster
The Godfather Part III
Film · 1990 · ★ 7.4
8½ poster
8½
Film · 1963 · ★ 8.1
La Dolce Vita poster
La Dolce Vita
Film · 1960 · ★ 8.0
Amarcord poster
Amarcord
Film · 1973 · ★ 7.9
La Strada poster
La Strada
Film · 1954 · ★ 7.9
The Leopard poster
The Leopard
Film · 1963 · ★ 7.7
Death on the Nile poster
Death on the Nile
Film · 1978 · ★ 7.2
Nights of Cabiria poster
Nights of Cabiria
Film · 1957 · ★ 8.0
Romeo and Juliet poster
Romeo and Juliet
Film · 1968 · ★ 7.4
I Vitelloni poster
I Vitelloni
Film · 1953 · ★ 7.7

Filmography