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Nino Rota

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1911-12-03

Birth Place

Milano, Lombardia, Italia

Movies and TV shows :

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

1994

6.0

Movie
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

1969

6.7

Movie
La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota

La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota

2011

0.0

Movie
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert

Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert

1993

6.3

Movie
The Magic of Fellini

The Magic of Fellini

2002

2.8

Movie
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'

The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'

1974

8.0

Movie