Piero Piccioni

1921–2004 · Torino, Italy

Biography

Piero Piccioni (December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer. A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He was influenced in the use of jazz by 20th century classical composers and American films. Piero Piccioni came into contact with the movie world in Rome during the fifties, when he was a practicing lawyer securing movie rights for Italian producers such as Titanus and De Laurentiis. Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Lina Wertmuller, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others. His film scores include Il bell'Antonio, Contempt, The 10th Victim, More Than a Miracle, The Deserter, The Light at the Edge of the World, Puppet on a Chain, Lucky Luciano, Camille 2000, The Nun and the Devil, Swept Away, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Fighting Back, and many Alberto Sordi movies. He is credited with over 300 soundtracks and compositions for radio, television, ballets and orchestra. Piccioni won many prestigious prizes including the David di Donatello Award for the movie Swept Away (1975), Nastro d’argento Award for the movie Salvatore Giuliano by Francesco Rosi (1963), Prix International Lumière 1991, Anna Magnani Award 1975 and Vittorio De Sica Award 1979.

Sound 194

2020s

2025
Intermission
Songs

1990s

1998
Incontri proibiti
Original Music Composer
50
1994
Nestore, l'ultima corsa
Original Music Composer
1993
Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini)
Original Music Composer
1992
Neapolitan Diary
Original Music Composer
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
Original Music Composer
1990
Comprarsi la vita
Original Music Composer
The Miser
Original Music Composer

1980s

1989
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Original Music Composer
1987
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Music
A Taxi Driver in New York
Original Music Composer
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Original Music Composer
A Child Called Jesus
Original Music Composer
1985
I Am an ESP
Original Music Composer
Quo Vadis?
Original Music Composer
1984
All for the Moral Majority!
Original Music Composer
1983
Il tassinaro
Original Music Composer
1982
Journey with Papa
Original Music Composer
I Know That You Know That I Know
Original Music Composer
Fighting Back
Original Music Composer
The Original Trap
Music
1981
Pierino, the SAUB Doctor
Original Music Composer
Don Luigi Sturzo
Music
Three Brothers
Original Music Composer
1980
Catherine and I
Original Music Composer
The Precarious Bank Teller
Original Music Composer

1970s

1979
Hypochondriac
Original Music Composer
Riavanti… Marsch!
Original Music Composer
The Swap
Music
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Conductor, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
1978
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Original Music Composer
The Witness
Original Music Composer
65
Professor Kranz german in Germany
Original Music Composer
1977
This Is the Night
Original Music Composer
Crazy Desires of a Murderer
Original Music Composer
1976
Strange Occasion
Original Music Composer
A Common Sense of Modesty
Original Music Composer
Illustrious Corpses
Original Music Composer, Conductor
71
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Original Music Composer
Heart of a Dog
Original Music Composer
64
1975
Fratello mare
Original Music Composer
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio
Original Music Composer
1974
While There's War There's Hope
Original Music Composer
Swept Away
Original Music Composer
71
Anna Karenina
Original Music Composer
The Kiss
Music, Conductor
Kidnap
Original Music Composer
Appassionata
Original Music Composer
55
All Screwed Up
Original Music Composer
God Under the Skin
Music
1973
Stardust
Original Music Composer
Story of a Cloistered Nun
Original Music Composer
Lucky Luciano
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
A Way of Being a Woman
Music
My Brother Anastasia
Music
The Executioner of God
Original Music Composer
The Lonely Woman
Music
The Nun and the Devil
Music
53
Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Original Music Composer
Six Bounty Killers for a Massacre
Original Music Composer
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria
Original Music Composer
1972
The Monk
Original Music Composer
57
The Scopone Game
Original Music Composer
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
Music
Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return
Music
the famous escapes
Original Music Composer
The Seduction of Mimi
Original Music Composer
The Mattei Affair
Original Music Composer
Night of the Scorpion
Music
1971
A Girl in Australia
Original Music Composer
Two Males for Alexa
Music
59
First Surrender
Original Music Composer
The Masked Thief
Original Music Composer
The Light at the Edge of the World
Original Music Composer
Devil's Ransom
Original Music Composer
In the Eye of the Hurricane
Original Music Composer
62
Marta
Original Music Composer
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana
Original Music Composer
1970
The Couples
Original Music Composer
62
The Deserter
Original Music Composer
So Long Gulliver
Music
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club
Original Music Composer
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Music
Many Wars Ago
Original Music Composer
75
Puppet on a Chain
Original Music Composer
62
Red Hot Shot
Original Music Composer
Let's Have a Riot
Original Music Composer
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia
Original Music Composer, Music Director

1960s

1969
The Others
Music
Medicine Italian Style
Original Music Composer
67
Check to the Queen
Original Music Composer
Playgirl 70
Music
The Brothers Karamazov
Original Music Composer
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Original Music Composer
Help Me, My Love
Original Music Composer
Love Me, Love My Wife
Original Music Composer
Youth March
Original Music Composer
Camille 2000
Original Music Composer
46
The Ten Wonders of Love
Original Music Composer
Naked England
Music
Temptation
Original Music Composer
1968
Gatling Gun
Original Music Composer
Bora Bora
Music
46
Be Sick… It's Free
Original Music Composer
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Original Music Composer
62
OSS 117 Murder for Sale
Music
La moglie giapponese
Original Music Composer
I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
Original Music Composer
Caprice Italian Style
Original Music Composer
The Young Tigers
Original Music Composer
Kenner
Original Music Composer
1967
An Italian in America
Original Music Composer
More Than a Miracle
Original Music Composer
The Stranger
Original Music Composer
I Married You for Fun
Original Music Composer
Matchless
Original Music Composer
The Witches
Original Music Composer, Music Director, Musician
60
Every Man Is My Enemy
Original Music Composer
1966
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Original Music Composer
After the Fox
Original Music Composer
67
Our Husbands
Original Music Composer
Smoke Over London
Original Music Composer
M.M.M. 83
Original Music Composer
1965
The 10th Victim
Conductor, Original Music Composer
70
I Knew Her Well
Original Music Composer
From the Orient with Fury
Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Tractor
Original Music Composer
Rope Around the Neck
Original Music Composer
The Captain's Daughter
Music
The Moment of Truth
Original Music Composer
The Three Faces
Music
Il provino
Music
La Fuga
Original Music Composer
1964
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Original Music Composer
The Flying Saucer
Original Music Composer
Minnesota Clay
Original Music Composer
60
Three Nights of Love
Original Music Composer
Three for a Robbery
Original Music Composer
It's a Hard Life
Original Music Composer
The Demon
Original Music Composer
72
1963
Who Works Is Lost
Original Music Composer
The Terrorist
Original Music Composer
Hands Over the City
Original Music Composer
A Sentimental Attempt
Original Music Composer
The Boom
Original Music Composer
78
To Bed or Not to Bed
Original Music Composer
The Attic
Music
The Shortest Day
Original Music Composer
60
The Girl from Parma
Original Music Composer
1962
Conquered City
Music
Mafioso
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Lo smemorato di Collegno
Conductor, Original Music Composer
66
Dark Soul
Original Music Composer
La Commare Secca
Original Music Composer
The Slave
Original Music Composer
Roaring Years
Conductor, Original Music Composer
72
Totò diabolicus
Original Music Composer
68
Violent Life
Original Music Composer
Eruption
Original Music Composer
Careless
Original Music Composer
72
Salvatore Giuliano
Original Music Composer
81
1961
The Two Marshals
Original Music Composer
Romulus and Remus
Original Music Composer
57
World by Night No. 2
Original Music Composer
Destination Fury
Original Music Composer
The Lovemakers
Original Music Composer
Youth at Night
Original Music Composer
Unexpected
Music
The Assassin
Original Music Composer
1960
Le svedesi
Original Music Composer
The Hunchback
Original Music Composer
From a Roman Balcony
Original Music Composer
Sweet Deceptions
Original Music Composer
Adua and Her Friends
Original Music Composer
Run with the Devil
Original Music Composer
World by Night
Original Music Composer
Il bell'Antonio
Original Music Composer
The Employee
Original Music Composer

1950s

1959
The Big Night
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Swindlers
Original Music Composer
Vacations in Majorca
Original Music Composer
Adventure in Capri
Original Music Composer
The Overtaxed
Original Music Composer
I ragazzi dei Parioli
Original Music Composer
1958
Tempest
Original Music Composer
Love on the Riviera
Original Music Composer
Angel in a Taxi
Original Music Composer
March's Child
Original Music Composer
1957
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl
Original Music Composer
64
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Original Music Composer
Guendalina
Original Music Composer
66
1955
Yalis, la vergine del Roncador
Original Music Composer
1954
The Boarder
Original Music Composer
1953
The World Condemns Them
Original Music Composer

Produced 1

1970s

1971
Stress
Production Secretary