Nino Rota

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1911-12-03

Deathday 1979-04-10 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Milano, Lombardia, Italia

Also Known As Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi, Nino Rotta, Nino Roto

Nino Rota

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.

Known For

Sound

2019
Hotzzo!

as Music

1998
Red Market

as Music

1985
1981
1979
Hurricane

as Original Music Composer

1978
Death on the Nile

as Original Music Composer

1978
Orchestra Rehearsal

as Original Music Composer

1978
Contact

as Music

1978
Il furto della gioconda

as Original Music Composer

1976
Dear Michele

as Original Music Composer

1976
Fellini's Casanova

as Original Music Composer

1974
The Godfather Part II

as Original Music Composer

1974
1973
Amarcord

as Original Music Composer

1973
Love and Anarchy

as Original Music Composer

1973
1972
Roma

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Godfather

as Original Music Composer

1970
Waterloo

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Clowns

as Original Music Composer

1969
Fellini Satyricon

as Original Music Composer

1969
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

as Original Music Composer

1969
Toby Dammit

as Original Music Composer

1968
Romeo and Juliet

as Original Music Composer

1968
Spirits of the Dead

as Original Music Composer

1967
The Taming of the Shrew

as Original Music Composer

1966
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand

as Original Music Composer

1965
Juliet of the Spirits

as Original Music Composer

1965
Kiss the Other Sheik

as Original Music Composer

1964
Gian Burrasca's Diary

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Leopard

as Original Music Composer

1963

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Leopard

as Music Arranger

1963
The Teacher from Vigevano

as Original Music Composer

1962
The Reluctant Saint

as Original Music Composer

1962
Boccaccio '70

as Original Music Composer

1962
The Temptation of Dr Antonio

as Original Music Composer

1961
Ghosts of Rome

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Best of Enemies

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Brigand

as Original Music Composer

1960
La Dolce Vita

as Original Music Composer

1960
Purple Noon

as Original Music Composer

1960
Rocco and His Brothers

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Great War

as Original Music Composer

1958
Piece of the Sky

as Original Music Composer

1958
Fortunella

as Original Music Composer

1958
The Law Is the Law

as Original Music Composer

1958
Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati

as Original Music Composer

1958
City at Night

as Original Music Composer

1957
Le Notti Bianche

as Original Music Composer

1957
Doctor and the Healer

as Original Music Composer

1957
1957
The Most Wonderful Moment

as Original Music Composer

1957
Nights of Cabiria

as Original Music Composer

1957
This Angry Age

as Original Music Composer

1956
War and Peace

as Original Music Composer

1955
It Happened in the Penitentiary

as Original Music Composer

1955
Io piaccio

as Music

1955
The Swindle

as Original Music Composer

1955
A Hero of Our Times

as Original Music Composer

1955
Scampolo 53

as Music

1955
La bella di Roma

as Original Music Composer

1954
La Strada

as Original Music Composer

1954
1954
100 Years of Love

as Original Music Composer

1954
Passionately

as Original Music Composer

1954
The Two Orphans

as Original Music Composer

1954
Divisione Folgore

as Original Music Composer

1954
Submarine Attack

as Original Music Composer

1954
Mambo

as Original Music Composer

1954
Modern Virgin

as Original Music Composer

1954
Star of India

as Music

1953
I Vitelloni

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Wild Oat

as Music

1953
Good Folk's Sunday

as Original Music Composer

1953
Easy Years

as Original Music Composer

1953
Riscatto

as Original Music Composer

1953
Lo scocciatore

as Original Music Composer

1953
Hell Raiders of the Deep

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Ship of Condemned Women

as Original Music Composer

1953
1952
The White Sheik

as Original Music Composer

1952
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino

as Original Music Composer

1952
I tre corsari

as Original Music Composer

1952
The Queen of Sheba

as Original Music Composer

1952
Noi due soli

as Original Music Composer

1952
Toto and the Kings of Rome

as Original Music Composer

1952
Marito e Moglie

as Original Music Composer

1952
Ragazze da marito

as Original Music Composer

1952
Un ladro in paradiso

as Original Music Composer

1952
Venetian Bird

as Original Music Composer

1951
Valley of the Eagles

as Original Music Composer

1951
White Corridors

as Original Music Composer

1951
Anna

as Original Music Composer

1951
Filumena Marturano

as Original Music Composer

1951
Honeymoon Deferred

as Original Music Composer

1951
Napoleone

as Music

1951
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!

as Original Music Composer

1950
È arrivato il Cavaliere

as Original Music Composer

1950
It's Forever Springtime

as Original Music Composer

1950
Il monello della strada

as Original Music Composer

1950
A Dog’s Life

as Original Music Composer

1950
Her Favourite Husband

as Original Music Composer

1950
Side Street Story

as Original Music Composer

1950
The King's Guerrillas

as Original Music Composer

1949
Obsession

as Original Music Composer

1949
Campane a martello

as Original Music Composer

1949
Come scopersi l'America

as Original Music Composer

1949
1949
The Pirates of Capri

as Original Music Composer

1948
Toto Tours Italy

as Original Music Composer

1948
Guaglio

as Original Music Composer

1948
Under the Sun of Rome

as Original Music Composer

1948
Escape to France

as Original Music Composer

1948
Lovers Without Love

as Original Music Composer

1948
Woman Trouble

as Original Music Composer

1948
L'eroe della strada

as Original Music Composer

1948
Arrivederci, papà!

as Original Music Composer

1948
Without Pity

as Original Music Composer

1947
How I Lost the War

as Original Music Composer

1947
1947
To Live in Peace

as Original Music Composer

1947
Daniele Cortis

as Original Music Composer

1946
Un americano in vacanza

as Original Music Composer

1946
Rome: Free City

as Original Music Composer

1946
Professor, My Son

as Original Music Composer

1945
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

as Original Music Composer

1945
The Misery of Mr. Travet

as Original Music Composer

1945
La freccia nel fianco

as Original Music Composer

1944
Zazà

as Original Music Composer

1944
Woman of the Mountains

as Original Music Composer

1942
Giorno di nozze

as Original Music Composer

1933
Tourist Train

as Original Music Composer

Crew

2013
Cinephile

as Compositors

1953
The Hunt

as Compositor

Camera

1946
Albergo Luna, camera 34

as Director of Photography