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.
2024 | Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies - Compositor |
2019 | Hotzzo! - Music |
2018 | The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever - Music |
2016 | Un Film E Basta: sul set di MIA MADRE accanto a Nanni Moretti - Music |
2013 | Киноман - Compositors |
1998 | Red Market - Music |
1995 | Лев с седой бородой - Music |
1988 | 痴漢電車 グッショリ濡らして - Sound |
1987 | 痴漢電車 指で点検 - Music |
1986 | 痴漢電車 相互連結 - Music |
1985 | I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo - Original Music Composer |
1981 | The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic - Original Music Composer |
1979 | Hurricane - Original Music Composer |
1978 | Prova d'orchestra - Original Music Composer |
1978 | Nil'de Ölüm - Original Music Composer |
1978 | Контакт - Music |
1977 | Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino' - Music |
1976 | Kazanova - Original Music Composer |
1976 | Caro Michele - Original Music Composer |
1975 | Пісня завжди з нами - Music |
1975 | E il Casanova di Fellini? - Music |
1974 | Baba: Bölüm 2 - Original Music Composer |
1974 | The Abdication - Music |
1974 | Diario segreto di Amarcord - Music |
1973 | Hatırlıyorum - Original Music Composer |
1973 | Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru - Music |
1973 | Film d'amore e d'anarchia - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Roma - Original Music Composer |
1972 | Baba - Original Music Composer |
1970 | Palyaçolar - Original Music Composer |
1970 | Waterloo - Original Music Composer |
1969 | Fellini – satyricon - Original Music Composer |
1969 | Block-notes di un regista - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Şeytanın Kurbanları - Original Music Composer |
1968 | Romeo ve Juliet - Original Music Composer |
1967 | The Taming of the Shrew - Original Music Composer |
1967 | Much Ado About Nothing - Original Music Composer |
1966 | Spara forte, più forte, non capisco - Original Music Composer |
1965 | Oggi, domani, dopodomani - Original Music Composer |
1965 | Ruhların Jülyeti - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Il maestro di Vigevano - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Leopar - Music Arranger |
1963 | Leopar - Original Music Composer |
1963 | Sekiz Buçuk - Original Music Composer |
1962 | The Reluctant Saint - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Boccaccio '70 - Original Music Composer |
1962 | Le tentazioni del Dottor Antonio - Original Music Composer |
1961 | The Best of Enemies - Original Music Composer |
1961 | Il brigante - Original Music Composer |
1961 | Fantasmi a Roma - Original Music Composer |
1960 | Rocco e i suoi fratelli - Original Music Composer |
1960 | Kızgın Güneş - Original Music Composer |
1960 | Tatlı Hayat - Original Music Composer |
1959 | La grande guerra - Original Music Composer |
1958 | Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati - Original Music Composer |
1958 | La loi c'est la loi - Original Music Composer |
1958 | Un ettaro di cielo - Original Music Composer |
1958 | Gli italiani sono matti - Music |
1958 | Fortunella - Original Music Composer |
1958 | Città di notte - Original Music Composer |
1957 | ll medico e lo stregone - Original Music Composer |
1957 | Beyaz Geceler - Original Music Composer |
1957 | This Angry Age - Original Music Composer |
1957 | Cabiria'nın Geceleri - Original Music Composer |
1957 | Il momento più bello - Original Music Composer |
1957 | Italia piccola - Music |
1956 | Savaş ve Barış - Original Music Composer |
1955 | Io piaccio - Music |
1955 | Accadde al Penitenziario - Original Music Composer |
1955 | Kalpazanlar Çetesi - Original Music Composer |
1955 | La bella di Roma - Original Music Composer |
1955 | Un eroe dei nostri tempi - Original Music Composer |
1955 | Scampolo 53 - Music |
1954 | Divisione Folgore - Original Music Composer |
1954 | L'amante di Paride - Music |
1954 | Le due orfanelle - Original Music Composer |
1954 | Sonsuz Sokaklar - Original Music Composer |
1954 | Vergine moderna - Original Music Composer |
1954 | Mambo - Original Music Composer |
1954 | Appassionatamente - Original Music Composer |
1954 | La grande speranza - Original Music Composer |
1954 | Cento anni d'amore - Original Music Composer |
1954 | La mano dello straniero - Music |
1954 | Star of India - Music |
1953 | Musoduro - Compositor |
1953 | Lo scocciatore - Original Music Composer |
1953 | La nave delle donne maledette - Original Music Composer |
1953 | Anni facili - Original Music Composer |
1953 | Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! - Music |
1953 | Aylaklar - Original Music Composer |
1953 | Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice - Original Music Composer |
1953 | Le Boulanger de Valorgue - Original Music Composer |
1953 | Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero - Original Music Composer |
1953 | La domenica della buona gente - Original Music Composer |
1953 | I sette dell'orsa maggiore - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Noi due soli - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Ragazze da marito - Original Music Composer |
1952 | La Regina di Saba - Original Music Composer |
1952 | I tre corsari - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Totò e i re di Roma - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Venetian Bird - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Beyaz Şeyh - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Something Money Can't Buy - Music |
1952 | Marito e Moglie - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Le meravigliose avventure di Guerrin Meschino - Original Music Composer |
1952 | Un ladro in paradiso - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Anna - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Era lui, sì, sì! - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Filumena Marturano - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Valley of the Eagles - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Due mogli sono troppe - Original Music Composer |
1951 | Napoleone - Music |
1951 | White Corridors - Original Music Composer |
1950 | Il monello della strada - Original Music Composer |
1950 | È arrivato il Cavaliere - Original Music Composer |
1950 | Donne e briganti - Original Music Composer |
1950 | È più facile che un cammello... - Music |
1950 | Vita da cani - Original Music Composer |
1950 | Napoli milionaria - Original Music Composer |
1950 | Quel bandito sono io - Original Music Composer |
1950 | È primavera... - Original Music Composer |
1949 | The Pirates of Capri - Original Music Composer |
1949 | Children of Chance - Music |
1949 | Campane a martello - Original Music Composer |
1949 | Obsession - Original Music Composer |
1949 | Come scopersi l'America - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Totò al giro d'Italia - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Molti sogni per le strade - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Sotto il sole di Roma - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Senza pietà - Original Music Composer |
1948 | L'eroe della strada - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Arrivederci, papà! - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Proibito rubare - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Fuga in Francia - Original Music Composer |
1948 | Amanti senza amore - Original Music Composer |
1947 | Come persi la guerra - Original Music Composer |
1947 | Il segreto di Don Giovanni - Music |
1947 | Daniele Cortis - Original Music Composer |
1947 | Vivere in pace - Original Music Composer |
1946 | Roma città libera - Original Music Composer |
1946 | Mio figlio professore - Original Music Composer |
1946 | Un americano in vacanza - Original Music Composer |
1946 | Albergo Luna, camera 34 - Director of Photography |
1946 | Albergo Luna, camera 34 - Music |
1945 | Le miserie del signor Travet - Original Music Composer |
1945 | Lo sbaglio di essere vivo - Original Music Composer |
1945 | La freccia nel fianco - Original Music Composer |
1944 | La donna della montagna - Original Music Composer |
1944 | Zazà - Original Music Composer |
1943 | Il birichino di papà - Music |
1942 | Giorno di nozze - Original Music Composer |
1933 | Treno Popolare - Original Music Composer |
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