Armando Trovajoli

1917–2013 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Biography

Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola. Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013. After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse, a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers, in a style extremely refined and sophisticated, very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time. Together with Goffredo Petrassi, Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949). In 1951, Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna, a film directed by Alberto Lattuada: particularly the song El Negro Zumbón became an international success: inspired by tropical rhythms, is sung in playback and danced by Silvana Mangano, but actually performed by Flo Sandon's. Since then, Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors as Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola and others, for a total of over 300 scores. Source: Article "Armando Trovajoli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Sound 210

2010s

2018
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Music
2010
Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Music

2000s

2006
Marcello, una vita dolce
Music
2004
Lives of the Saints
Music
2003
People of Rome
Original Music Composer
La notte di Pasquino
Original Music Composer
2001
Unfair Competition
Original Music Composer

1990s

1998
Rugantino
Original Music Composer
The Dinner
Music
1997
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Original Music Composer
1996
Giovani e belli
Music
1995
The Story of a Poor Young Man
Original Music Composer
1993
Mario, Maria and Mario
Original Music Composer
Berlin '39
Original Music Composer
1992
Centro storico
Original Music Composer
Gangsters
Original Music Composer
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Original Music Composer
1991
The Wicked
Music
1990
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Original Music Composer
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Original Music Composer

1980s

1989
What Time Is It?
Original Music Composer
Running Away
Music
Splendor
Music
1988
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Original Music Composer
Miss Arizona
Original Music Composer
1987
The Family
Original Music Composer
73
1986
A Thorn in the Heart
Music
1985
Macaroni
Original Music Composer
1984
Frankenstein 90
Original Music Composer
1983
Le Bal
Music Consultant
Dagger Eyes
Original Music Composer
55
Sing Sing
Original Music Composer
57
1982
Count Tacchia
Original Music Composer
The Balad of Mamelouk
Original Music Composer
More Beautiful Than Me You Die
Original Music Composer
Viuuulentemente mia
Original Music Composer
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Original Music Composer
That Night of Varennes
Original Music Composer
The Paramedic
Original Music Composer
57
1981
Passion of Love
Original Music Composer
73
Shut Up When You Speak!
Music
Perché non facciamo l'amore
Music
1980
Arrivano i bersaglieri
Original Music Composer
The Terrace
Original Music Composer
La amante ingenua
Original Music Composer

1970s

1979
Life Is Beautiful
Original Music Composer
The Swap
Music
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Original Music Composer
51
1978
My Loves
Original Music Composer
60
Rugantino
Music
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Original Music Composer
1977
The New Monsters
Original Music Composer
70
In the Name of the Pope King
Original Music Composer
Wifemistress
Original Music Composer
A Special Day
Original Music Composer
86
The Bishop's Bedroom
Original Music Composer
61
1976
Keep It To Yourself!
Original Music Composer
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Original Music Composer
Evil Thoughts
Music
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Original Music Composer
76
La banca di Monate
Music
Blackmail Chase
Original Music Composer
Luna di miele in tre
Original Music Composer
Shadows in an Empty Room
Original Music Composer
The Career of a Chambermaid
Original Music Composer
1975
Duck in Orange Sauce
Original Music Composer
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Original Music Composer
1974
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Original Music Composer
81
Scent of a Woman
Original Music Composer
75
The Way of the Baboons
Original Music Composer
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Original Music Composer
1973
Love and Gymnastics
Music
How Funny Can Sex Be?
Original Music Composer
Rugantino
Original Music Composer
58
The Sensual Man
Original Music Composer
La Tosca
Original Music Composer
It Was I
Music
1972
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Music
The Italian Connection
Original Music Composer
71
The Migratory Bird
Music
The Valachi Papers
Original Music Composer
64
1971
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
Original Music Composer
That's How We Women Are
Original Music Composer
Homo Eroticus
Music
The Double
Original Music Composer
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Original Music Composer
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Original Music Composer
1970
The Priest's Wife
Original Music Composer
63
The Married Priest
Original Music Composer
May Morning
Music
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Original Music Composer

1960s

1969
Normal Young Man
Original Music Composer
Lovemaker
Original Music Composer
The Conspirators
Original Music Composer
Police Chief Pepe
Original Music Composer
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Original Music Composer
How, When, and with Whom
Original Music Composer
I See Naked
Original Music Composer
A Bullet for Rommel
Music
1968
The Libertine
Original Music Composer
54
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Original Music Composer
Faustina
Original Music Composer
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Original Music Composer
Seven Times Seven
Original Music Composer
La Famiglia Benvenuti
Original Music Composer
Fuller Report, Base Stockholm
Original Music Composer
The Prophet
Original Music Composer
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Original Music Composer
Acid Delirium of the Senses
Original Music Composer
1967
Deadly Sweet
Original Music Composer
54
Anyone Can Play
Original Music Composer
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
Assault on the State Treasure
Original Music Composer
Don Juan in Sicily
Original Music Composer
Long Days of Vengeance
Original Music Composer
62
1966
Maigret at the Pigalle
Music
The Devil in Love
Original Music Composer
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Original Music Composer
70
Our Husbands
Original Music Composer
The Spy Who Loved Flowers
Original Music Composer
Kill, Baby... Kill!
Music
68
The Queens
Original Music Composer
58
Adultery Italian Style
Original Music Composer
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Original Music Composer
60
So This Is God's Country?
Music
1965
Violence and Love
Original Music Composer
Complexes
Original Music Composer, Conductor
71
Casanova '70
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Assassination in Rome
Original Music Composer
The Dolls
Original Music Composer
1964
Beautiful Families
Original Music Composer
Marriage Italian Style
Original Music Composer, Conductor
78
My Wife
Original Music Composer
64
The Magnificent Cuckold
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Il gaucho
Original Music Composer
Attack and Retreat
Original Music Composer
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Original Music Composer
Let's Talk About Women
Original Music Composer
Un momento muy largo
Music
The Thursday
Original Music Composer, Conductor
72
High Infidelity
Original Music Composer
62
Una storia di notte
Sound
1963
The Visitor
Original Music Composer
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Original Music Composer, Music Director
74
The Monsters
Original Music Composer
74
Gli onorevoli
Original Music Composer
69
Totò sexy
Original Music Composer
The Scapegoat
Music
I terribili sette
Original Music Composer
In Italia si chiama amore
Original Music Composer
The Monk of Monza
Original Music Composer
1962
Toto at Night
Original Music Composer
Warriors Five
Original Music Composer
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Alone Against Rome
Original Music Composer
The Four Monks
Original Music Composer
East Zone, West Zone
Music
Always on Sunday
Sound, Original Music Composer
Il mio amico Benito
Original Music Composer
Boccaccio '70
Original Music Composer
65
Planets Around Us
Original Music Composer
Down with Uncle
Music
1961
Ten Italians for One German
Original Music Composer
His Women
Original Music Composer
Fists, Girls and Sailors
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Hercules in the Haunted World
Original Music Composer
63
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Music
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Original Music Composer
The Orderly
Original Music Composer
The Giant of Metropolis
Original Music Composer
47
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Original Music Composer
50
Laura nuda
Music
The Grand Olympics
Original Music Composer
Ghosts of Rome
Conductor
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Original Music Composer
Slave of Rome
Music
1960
Two Women
Original Music Composer
80
Il corazziere
Original Music Composer
Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Little Girls and High Finance
Original Music Composer
Questo amore ai confini del mondo
Music
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Original Music Composer
Le pillole di Ercole
Music
Atom Age Vampire
Original Music Composer
40
I piaceri del sabato notte
Music
I piaceri dello scapolo
Original Music Composer, Conductor
A Soldier and a Half
Original Music Composer
La Dolce Vita
Music Arranger
86