Nino Rota
Sound
Born 1911-12-03
Died 1979-04-10
Milano, Lombardia, Italia
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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.
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The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Death on the Nile
La Dolce Vita
Romeo and Juliet
8½
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
War and Peace
The Leopard
Purple Noon
Rocco and His Brothers
Amarcord
Boccaccio '70
Nights of Cabiria
The Taming of the Shrew
Waterloo
White Nights
Origins of the Mafia
I Vitelloni
Roma
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Satyricon
La Strada
The Great War
Gian Burrasca's Diary
Juliet of the Spirits
Spirits of the Dead
Venetian Bird
Fellini's Casanova
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Toby Dammit
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
The Clowns
Love and Anarchy
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Il furto della gioconda
The White Sheik
The Swindle
The Best of Enemies
Noi due soli
Without Pity
Orchestra Rehearsal
Divisione Folgore
100 Years of Love
Zazà
Dear Michele
Ghosts of Rome
I tre corsari
Contact
Mambo
Lo scocciatore
Doctor and the Healer
Star of India
Anna
In morte di Federico Fellini
Loves of Three Queens
The King's Guerrillas
Acting
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