Carlo Savina (2 August 1919 - 23 June 2002) was an Italian composer and conductor who composed, arranged, and conducted music for films-and is especially remembered for being the music director of films such as The Godfather (1972), Amarcord (1973), and The Bear (1988).
Savina worked with many of the notable film score composers of the 20th century including: Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovajoli, Nino Rota, Mario Nascimbene, Stanley Myers, Stephen Sondheim, Philippe Sarde, and Miklos Rozsa. His work ranged from composing music for frequent Spaghetti Westerns such as Johnny Oro to being the musical director and conductor in Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal.
In 1985 he won the David di Donatello Best Music award for the film score of Pizza Connection.
Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinet for the orchestra of Italian public radio broadcaster EIAR. Carlo learned the violin as a child and went on to graduate from the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi in Turin where he studied piano, violin, composition, and conducting. In 1945 he began composing music for radio. Early in his career he was awarded a prize by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He started his own orchestra and soon was famous. In 1950 he began composing and arranging music for film. For the next thirty years he composed, arranged, and conducted music for over 200 films and became one of the most prolific, and perhaps underrated, screen and television composers of the 20th century.
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1990 | Feu sur le candidat - Original Music Composer |
1988 | Laggiù nella giungla - Music |
1985 | Pizza Connection - Original Music Composer |
1984 | Il futuro è donna - Original Music Composer |
1982 | Fuga dall'arcipelago maledetto - Original Music Composer |
1982 | Altın kobra avcıları - Original Music Composer |
1982 | Regina Roma - Conductor |
1981 | Comin' at Ya! - Music |
1981 | The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic - Conductor |
1979 | Prova d'orchestra - Conductor |
1979 | Prova d'orchestra - Music Consultant |
1978 | L'osceno desiderio - Original Music Composer |
1978 | Indagine su un delitto perfetto - Music |
1978 | La mujer de la tierra caliente - Music |
1978 | Suggestionata - Music |
1977 | Le calde notti di Caligola - Original Music Composer |
1977 | Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito - Music |
1977 | Nove ospiti per un delitto - Original Music Composer |
1976 | Kazanova - Conductor |
1976 | Caro Michele - Conductor |
1976 | Campagnola bella - Music |
1975 | La nuora giovane - Original Music Composer |
1975 | Ultime grida dalla savana - Music |
1975 | Una vergine in famiglia - Music |
1975 | Il vizio ha le calze nere - Music |
1975 | La encadenada - Original Music Composer |
1975 | La bolognese - Original Music Composer |
1975 | The House of Exorcism - Music |
1975 | L'ingenua - Original Music Composer |
1975 | Calore in provincia - Original Music Composer |
1974 | Carnalità - Music |
1974 | La profanazione - Music |
1974 | La noche de los asesinos - Original Music Composer |
1974 | L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone - Original Music Composer |
1974 | La badessa di Castro - Original Music Composer |
1974 | El Kárate, el Colt y el Impostor - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Hatırlıyorum - Conductor |
1973 | Le Magnifique - Conductor |
1973 | Racconti romani di una ex-novizia - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Ceremonia sangrienta - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Fra' Tazio da Velletri - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia - Music |
1973 | Lisa e il diavolo - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Cuore - Music |
1973 | Ingrid sulla strada - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Film d'amore e d'anarchia - Ovvero "Stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza..." - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Un animale chiamato uomo - Music |
1972 | Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero - Director of Photography |
1972 | I senza Dio - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Trinità e Sartana figli di… - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Spirito santo e le 5 magnifiche canaglie - Screenplay |
1972 | Jesse & Lester - Due fratelli in un posto chiamato Trinità - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Cerco de terror - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Roma - Conductor |
1972 | Baba - Conductor |
1972 | Finalmente le mille e una notte - Music |
1971 | Ehi amigo... sei morto! - Music |
1971 | L'occhio del ragno - Music |
1971 | La notte dei dannati - Original Music Composer |
1971 | La araucana - Music |
1971 | Io Cristiana, studentessa degli scandali - Music |
1971 | Las amantes del diablo - Music |
1971 | Il tredicesimo è sempre Giuda - Music |
1971 | Le calde notti di Don Giovanni - Original Music Composer |
1971 | Historia de una traición - Original Music Composer |
1970 | Belle d'amore - Original Music Composer |
1970 | Palyaçolar - Conductor |
1970 | Il giardino dei Finzi Contini - Conductor |
1970 | Ombre roventi - Original Music Composer |
1970 | L'inafferrabile invincibile Mr. Invisibile - Original Music Composer |
1970 | Il tuo dolce corpo da uccidere - Conductor |
1970 | Il tuo dolce corpo da uccidere - Music |
1970 | Quell'amore particolare - Music |
1970 | E Dio disse a Caino… - Original Music Composer |
1969 | I due Kennedy - Music |
1969 | Simón Bolívar - Original Music Composer |
1969 | Malenka - Original Music Composer |
1969 | Testa o croce - Original Music Composer |
1969 | Schreie in der Nacht - Music |
1968 | I due magnifici fresconi - Music |
1968 | Io ti amo - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Anche nel west c'era una volta Dio - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Joko invoca Dio... e muori - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Capriccio all'italiana - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Franco, Ciccio e le vedove allegre - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Cehennemde Fırtına - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Giurò... e li uccise ad uno ad uno - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Pagó cara su muerte - Music |
1968 | Nude... si muore - Additional Music |
1968 | Nude... si muore - Conductor |
1968 | Nude... si muore - Original Music Composer |
1967 | Due Rrringos nel Texas - Original Music Composer |
1967 | A Ghentar si muore facile - Original Music Composer |
1967 | Si muore solo una volta - Original Music Composer |
1967 | The Taming of the Shrew - Conductor |
1967 | Joe l'implacabile - Original Music Composer |
1967 | Vietnam guerra senza fronte - Sound |
1966 | Las 7 magnificas - Music |
1966 | Pochi dollari per Django - Original Music Composer |
1966 | Johnny Oro - Original Music Composer |
1966 | Goldsnake: Anonima Killers - Original Music Composer |
1966 | Furia a Marrakech - Original Music Composer |
1966 | Delitto d'amore - Sound |
1966 | A 077, sfida ai killers - Original Music Composer |
1966 | All'ombra delle aquile - Music |
1966 | Per un dollaro di gloria - Original Music Composer |
1965 | Ruhların Jülyeti - Conductor |
1965 | Gli amanti latini - Original Music Composer |
1965 | Le spie uccidono a Beirut - Original Music Composer |
1965 | Här kommer bärsärkarna - Original Music Composer |
1964 | Sette a Tebe - Music |
1964 | Il piombo e la carne - Original Music Composer |
1964 | Veneri al sole - Music |
1964 | Il trionfo dei dieci gladiatori - Music |
1964 | Sedotti e bidonati - Conductor |
1964 | Gli indifferenti - Conductor |
1964 | Kızıl Çöl - Conductor |
1964 | La cripta e l'incubo - Music |
1964 | Queste pazze, pazze donne - Original Music Composer |
1964 | Amore mio - Original Music Composer |
1964 | Le tardone - Original Music Composer |
1964 | Cleopazza - Sound |
1963 | Ercole sfida Sansone - Conductor |
1963 | Maciste contro i Mongoli - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Ursus nella terra di fuoco - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Mare matto - Conductor |
1963 | Siamo tutti pomicioni - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Le motorizzate - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Zorro alla corte di Spagna - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Dal sabato al lunedì - Conductor |
1963 | Io Semiramide - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Selahaddin Eyyubi - Conductor |
1963 | La donna degli altri è sempre più bella - Original Music Composer |
1963 | La vita provvisoria - Original Music Composer |
1963 | La cieca di Sorrento - Music |
1962 | Gli italiani e le donne - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Le sette folgori di Assur - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Carmen di Trastevere - Conductor |
1962 | Ursus, il gladiatore ribelle - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Eva - Music Director |
1962 | L'ira di Achille - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Twist, lolite e vitelloni - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Maciste contro lo sceicco - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Il disordine - Conductor |
1962 | Io amo, tu ami - Original Music Composer |
1961 | I fratelli Corsi - Conductor |
1961 | Gerarchi si muore - Original Music Composer |
1961 | Una vita difficile - Original Music Composer |
1961 | I briganti italiani - Conductor |
1961 | Le magnifiche 7 - Original Music Composer |
1961 | Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan - Conductor |
1961 | Il re di poggioreale - Music |
1961 | Maciste contro il vampiro - Conductor |
1961 | Rosmunda e Alboino - Conductor |
1961 | Bellezze sulla spiaggia - Original Music Composer |
1961 | Il carabiniere a cavallo - Conductor |
1961 | Scandali al mare - Original Music Composer |
1961 | La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo - Music |
1960 | Che femmina!! E... che dollari! - Original Music Composer |
1960 | Ferragosto in Bikini - Original Music Composer |
1960 | Caccia al marito - Original Music Composer |
1960 | It Started in Naples - Original Music Composer |
1960 | Messalina Venere imperatrice - Conductor |
1960 | I cosacchi - Conductor |
1960 | I baccanali di Tiberio - Original Music Composer |
1959 | Napoli Kralı I. Ferdinand - Conductor |
1959 | Il magistrato - Conductor |
1959 | Europa di notte - Original Music Composer |
1959 | Il moralista - Original Music Composer |
1959 | Giuditta e Oloferne - Original Music Composer |
1959 | Kahraman ve Melike - Conductor |
1959 | Erode il grande - Original Music Composer |
1958 | The Naked Maja - Conductor |
1958 | Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! - Original Music Composer |
1958 | Totò e Marcellino - Conductor |
1958 | Io, mammeta e tu - Original Music Composer |
1958 | Le fatiche di Ercole - Conductor |
1958 | La mina - Conductor |
1957 | Yoksul ama Güzel - Conductor |
1957 | La Venere di Cheronea - Conductor |
1957 | Lazzarella - Conductor |
1957 | Te stò aspettanno - Music |
1957 | Marisa la civetta - Conductor |
1956 | Noi siamo le colonne - Conductor |
1956 | Presentimento - Original Music Composer |
1956 | Suor Letizia - Conductor |
1956 | Giovanni dalle Bande Nere - Conductor |
1956 | Oğlum Neron - Conductor |
1956 | La fortuna di essere donna - Conductor |
1955 | Lo scapolo - Conductor |
1955 | Ragazze d'oggi - Conductor |
1955 | Il coraggio - Conductor |
1955 | Il coraggio - Original Music Composer |
1955 | Aşk ve Ekmek - Conductor |
1955 | Un eroe dei nostri tempi - Conductor |
1954 | Totò cerca pace - Conductor |
1954 | Totò cerca pace - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Mamma mia, che impressione! - Conductor |
1948 | Che tempi! - Conductor |
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