Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (Italian:[dʒoˈvanniˈrɔːtariˈnaldi]; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979),[1] better known as Nino Rota (IPA:[ˈniːno]), 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 screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).[2]
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[3] 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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Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈrɔːta riˈnaldi]; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as NinoRota (IPA: [ˈniːno]), was an Italian...
Below is a selected discography for NinoRota (1911–1979). He was a prolific composer; there are a great many recordings of all of his music—both popular...
completed ahead of schedule. The musical score was composed principally by NinoRota, with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola. The Godfather premiered at...
Amarcord NinoRota is an album by various artists, recorded as a tribute to composer NinoRota. The album is a tribute to composer NinoRota and contains...
is an instrumental theme from the 1972 film The Godfather, composed by NinoRota. The piece was lyricized in English by Larry Kusik into "Speak Softly...
This is a list of compositions by the Italian composer NinoRota (1911–1979). Il principe porcaro (1926) Ariodante (1938–1941) Torquemada (1943) I due...
featurette from 1971; and video segments on Gordon Willis's cinematography, NinoRota's and Carmine Coppola's music, the director, the locations and Mario Puzo's...
the young Vito Corleone flashback segments. Principal score composer NinoRota and Carmine together won Oscars for Best Score for the film. He also composed...
albums have featured music by NinoRota, Gavin Bryars, Frank Zappa, Roger Eno, and the Beatles, among others. NinoRota 1992 In a Room (music of Roger...
consisting of "The Godfather Waltz" and Michael's Theme, composed by NinoRota and sung by Nino Palermo in The Godfather Part II soundtrack, "Come Back To Love...
The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo...
la pappa col pomodoro" is a 1964 song composed by Lina Wertmüller and NinoRota, arranged by Luis Bacalov and performed by Rita Pavone. The song was part...
2005–06 Romance from The Blizzard by Georgy Sviridov Romeo and Juliet by NinoRota arranged by Edvin Marton Svet Nochi (Original: Color Of The Night by Lauren...
B-52's album Mesopotamia on the track "Loveland", and the album Amarcord NinoRota on the track "La Dolce Vita Suite", produced by Saturday Night Live music...
la Shoah. p. 52. ISBN 978-2-916966-93-9. Dyer, Richard (Jul 25, 2019). NinoRota: Music, Film and Feeling. Bloomsbury. Philo, Simon (2018). "Introduction"...
A clarinet trio is a chamber ensemble that consists of a clarinet, a bowed string instrument and a piano, or a musical work for such an ensemble. The string...
name of "Nino Bravo". In those years, the compositions and quality of the Italian musician NinoRota stood out. Ferri LLopis liked the name Nino because...
Rome. Fellini's longtime musical collaborator NinoRota composed the soundtrack. Until his death in 1979, Rota wrote the music for every Fellini film except...
Neapolitan singer and director. His last album was “Rendez-vous Chez NinoRota”, in which he performed the legendary Milanese composer's duets with Ute...
The film's soundtrack is notable for featuring numerous excerpts from NinoRota's score for the Federico Fellini film 8½, itself a self-reflexive work...
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