Nino Rota

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
The Godfather Part II
8½
La Dolce Vita
Amarcord
La Strada
Birth Location Milano, Lombardia, Italia
Born 1911-12-03
Died 1979-04-10

Movies

The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)
2002
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota as Self (archive footage)
1994
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert as Self (archive footage)
1993

Movies

Hotzzo! Music
2019
Cinephile Compositors
2013
Red Market Music
1998
1985
1981
Hurricane Original Music Composer
1979
Orchestra Rehearsal Original Music Composer
1978
Death on the Nile Original Music Composer
1978
Contact Music
1978
Fellini's Casanova Original Music Composer
1976
Dear Michele Original Music Composer
1976
The Godfather Part II Original Music Composer
1974
1974
Amarcord Original Music Composer
1973
1973
Love and Anarchy Original Music Composer
1973
Roma Original Music Composer
1972
The Godfather Original Music Composer
1972
Waterloo Music
1970
The Clowns Original Music Composer
1970
Fellini Satyricon Original Music Composer
1969
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook Original Music Composer
1969
Spirits of the Dead Original Music Composer
1968
Romeo and Juliet Original Music Composer
1968
The Taming of the Shrew Original Music Composer
1967
1966
Oggi, domani, dopodomani Original Music Composer
1965
Juliet of the Spirits Original Music Composer
1965
The Teacher from Vigevano Original Music Composer
1963
The Leopard Music Arranger
1963
The Leopard Original Music Composer
1963
8½ Original Music Composer
1963
1962
Boccaccio '70 Original Music Composer
1962
The Best of Enemies Original Music Composer
1961
The Brigand Original Music Composer
1961
Ghosts of Rome Original Music Composer
1961
Rocco and His Brothers Original Music Composer
1960
Purple Noon Original Music Composer
1960
La Dolce Vita Original Music Composer
1960
The Great War Original Music Composer
1959
Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati Original Music Composer
1958
The Law Is the Law Original Music Composer
1958
Piece of the Sky Original Music Composer
1958
Fortunella Original Music Composer
1958
City at Night Original Music Composer
1958
Doctor and the Healer Original Music Composer
1957
Le Notti Bianche Original Music Composer
1957
This Angry Age Original Music Composer
1957
Nights of Cabiria Original Music Composer
1957
The Most Wonderful Moment Original Music Composer
1957
1957
War and Peace Original Music Composer
1956
Io piaccio Music
1955
It Happened in the Penitentiary Original Music Composer
1955
The Swindle Original Music Composer
1955
La bella di Roma Original Music Composer
1955
A Hero of Our Times Original Music Composer
1955
Divisione Folgore Original Music Composer
1954
The Two Orphans Original Music Composer
1954
La Strada Original Music Composer
1954
Modern Virgin Original Music Composer
1954
Mambo Original Music Composer
1954
Passionately Original Music Composer
1954
Submarine Attack Original Music Composer
1954
100 Years of Love Original Music Composer
1954
1954
1954
The Hunt Compositor
1953
Lo scocciatore Original Music Composer
1953
The Ship of Condemned Women Original Music Composer
1953
Easy Years Original Music Composer
1953
I Vitelloni Original Music Composer
1953
Riscatto Original Music Composer
1953
The Wild Oat Music
1953
1953
Good Folk's Sunday Original Music Composer
1953
Hell Raiders of the Deep Original Music Composer
1953
Noi due soli Original Music Composer
1952
Ragazze da marito Original Music Composer
1952
The Queen of Sheba Original Music Composer
1952
I tre corsari Original Music Composer
1952
Toto and the Kings of Rome Original Music Composer
1952
Venetian Bird Original Music Composer
1952
The White Sheik Original Music Composer
1952
Marito e Moglie Original Music Composer
1952
1952
Un ladro in paradiso Original Music Composer
1952
Anna Original Music Composer
1951
It's Him!... Yes! Yes! Original Music Composer
1951
Filumena Marturano Original Music Composer
1951
Valley of the Eagles Original Music Composer
1951
Honeymoon Deferred Original Music Composer
1951
Napoleone Music
1951
White Corridors Original Music Composer
1951
Il monello della strada Original Music Composer
1950
È arrivato il Cavaliere Original Music Composer
1950
The King's Guerrillas Original Music Composer
1950
A Dog’s Life Original Music Composer
1950
Side Street Story Original Music Composer
1950
Her Favourite Husband Original Music Composer
1950
It's Forever Springtime Original Music Composer
1950
The Pirates of Capri Original Music Composer
1949
1949
Campane a martello Original Music Composer
1949
Obsession Original Music Composer
1949
Come scopersi l'America Original Music Composer
1949
Toto Tours Italy Original Music Composer
1948
Woman Trouble Original Music Composer
1948
Under the Sun of Rome Original Music Composer
1948
Without Pity Original Music Composer
1948
L'eroe della strada Original Music Composer
1948
Arrivederci, papà! Original Music Composer
1948
Guaglio Original Music Composer
1948
Escape to France Original Music Composer
1948
Lovers Without Love Original Music Composer
1948
How I Lost the War Original Music Composer
1947
1947
Daniele Cortis Original Music Composer
1947
To Live in Peace Original Music Composer
1947
Rome: Free City Original Music Composer
1946
Professor, My Son Original Music Composer
1946
Un americano in vacanza Original Music Composer
1946
Albergo Luna, camera 34 Director of Photography
1946
The Misery of Mr. Travet Original Music Composer
1945
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo Original Music Composer
1945
La freccia nel fianco Original Music Composer
1945
Woman of the Mountains Original Music Composer
1944
Zazà Original Music Composer
1944
Giorno di nozze Original Music Composer
1942
Tourist Train Original Music Composer
1933