Nino Rota

1911–1979 · Milano, Lombardia, Italia

Biography

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.

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2020s

2025
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
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Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
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2022
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
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2010s

2018
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
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2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
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1990s

1995
The Lion with the White Beard
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1994
In morte di Federico Fellini
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1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
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1980s

1988
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
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1987
Groper Train: Check With Your Finger
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1986
Shin mibôjin geshuku: Magari anagari
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Groper Train: Interconnected
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1985
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
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1970s

1979
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
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Hurricane
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Orchestra Rehearsal
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1978
Death on the Nile
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Contact
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Il furto della gioconda
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1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
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92
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
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1976
Fellini's Casanova
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Origins of the Mafia
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Dear Michele
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1975
The Song Is Always With Us
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E il Casanova di Fellini?
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1974
The Godfather Part II
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91
The Abdication
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The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
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1973
Amarcord
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81
Sunset Sunrise
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Love and Anarchy
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77
1972
Roma
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70
The Godfather
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94
1970
The Clowns
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78
Waterloo
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