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.
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Movies (46)
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2025
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2025
Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
Compositor (Crew)
2024
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
Music (Sound)
2018
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Music (Sound)
2016
Cinephile
Compositors (Crew)
2013
La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota
2011
The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Red Market
Music (Sound)
1998
The Lion with the White Beard
Music (Sound)
1995
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
Sound (Sound)
1988
Groper Train: Check With Your Finger
Music (Sound)
1987
Groper Train: Interconnected
Music (Sound)
1986
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1985
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
Murad Kazhlayev. Rhythms and Years
as Self
1981
Hurricane
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Orchestra Rehearsal
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Death on the Nile
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Contact
Music (Sound)
1978
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
Music (Sound)
1977
Fellini's Casanova
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1976
Dear Michele
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1976
The Song Is Always With Us
Music (Sound)
1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Music (Sound)
1975
The Godfather Part II
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1974
The Abdication
Music (Sound)
1974
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
as Self
1974
Amarcord
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1973
Sunset Sunrise
Music (Sound)
1973
Love and Anarchy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1973
Roma
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1972
The Godfather
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1972
The Clowns
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1970
Waterloo
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1970
Satyricon
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1969
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
as Self
1969
Spirits of the Dead
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
Romeo and Juliet
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
The Taming of the Shrew
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
Much Ado About Nothing
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1966
Kiss the Other Sheik
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1965
