Nino Rota
Like many fine concert music composers, such as Serge Prokofiev, Toru Takemitsu, and Bernard Herrmann, Rota created a unique film soundtrack style for which he became known worldwide.
Rota was born into a musical family: one of his grandfathers was the pianist-composer Giovanni Rinaldi (1840-1895), and he studied the piano, on which he was to become known as a gifted improviser, with his mother. He also studied solfège and began to compose at the early age of eight. His oratorio L'infanzia di S. Giovanni Battista (The Infancy of Saint John the Baptist) for soloists, chorus, and orchestra was performed in Milan and Lille in 1923, when he was only 12.
Rota entered the Milan Conservatory in 1923 and wrote his (unperformed) first opera Il principe porcaro in 1925, basing his original libretto on Hans Christian Andersen's tale. About this time he established a lifelong friendship with Igor Stravinsky. He studied privately with Pizzetti and Casella, and received his diploma at the Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome in 1930. In the U.S., he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia from 1931-32, and received an arts degree at Milan University (1937). During this time he composed several minor chamber works.
He became a teacher of harmony, solfège, and composition at the Taranto music school (1937-1938) and the Bari Conservatory (1939-1950) where he became director (in 1950).
Rota's first film score was for Renato Castellani's Zazà in 1944. He then went on to create music for many classic films by Luchino Visconti (Rocco and his Brothers), Franco Zeffirelli (The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet), Mario Monicelli, H. Cass (The Glass Mountain), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, which received an Oscar for best score), King Vidor (War and Peace), René Clément (Plein soleil), Edward Dmytrik, C. Borghesio, M. Soldati (Le miserie del signor Travat), L. Zampa (Anni facili), M. Monicelli (La grande guerra), S.F. Bondarchuk (Waterloo), and Eduardo de Filippo (Napoli milionairia). His 80 scores for Federico Fellini extended from The White Sheik (1952) to The Orchestra Rehearsal (1979). He also composed the music for many theater productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli, and de Filippo. These film scores have a distinctive "Rota" sound made from clear, directly expressive melodies and rhythms, unusual progressions of tonal chords, and often an earthy humor.
Of Rota's 10 operas, the exciting Il capello di paglia di Firenze (1946) and the philosophical allegory La visita meravigliosa (1970, The Marvelous Visitation) were the most successful. Of his five choral works, the Mysterium (1962) and La vita di Maria (1970) are considered especially fine in compositional technique. He also composed five ballets, including Amor di poeta (1978) for Maurice Bejart, many chamber and piano works, several symphonies, and other orchestral works including the brilliant Harp Concerto (1948). In February 1995, the Nino Rota Foundation was established at Fondazione Cini in Venice.
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La Lecon Particuliere
Classical - Released by UME - Global Clearing House on 1 Dec 2023
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Classic Soundtracks: La Dolce Vita (1960 Film Score)
Soundtracks - Released by Classic Soundtracks on 28 Apr 2012
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Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. S.r.l. on 21 May 2012
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Christmas In Italy: Beautiful fireplace music
Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Piero Piccioni
Classical - Released by UME - Global Clearing House on 9 Dec 2022
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Plein Soleil ( Blazing Sun) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Horus Music Distribution on 15 Sep 2014
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La Dolce Vita Souvenir
Lounge - Released by Kutmusic on 23 Feb 2011
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La dolce vita (La dolce vita a Caracalla) (From "La dolce vita" / Remastered 2022)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Decca (UMO) Classics (CAM) on 14 Oct 2022
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Giulietta Degli Spiriti (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Creazioni Artistiche Musicali on 5 May 2003
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Rocco et ses frères (Bande originale du film de Luchino Visconti)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Milan on 24 Jul 2015
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Amarcord (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Remastered 2021)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Decca (UMO) Classics (CAM) on 1 Jan 1973
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Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Deluxe Edition / Remastered 2022)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Decca (UMO) Classics (CAM) on 10 Feb 2023
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Plein Soleil [Blazing Sun] (OST) [1960]
Film Soundtracks - Released by Classic Soundtrack Collector on 25 Sep 2013
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Roma - Fellini's Roma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by EMI Music Publishing Italia Srl on 2 Mar 2015
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La Dolce Vita - Italian Music goes to Hollywood
Film Soundtracks - Released by UME - Global Clearing House on 7 Mar 2024
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Nino Rota - 34 Film Music Rarities 1933-1979
Nino Rota, Solisti e Orchestre del Cinema Italiano
Film Soundtracks - Released by Recording Arts on 1 Jun 2014
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Le Guepard (Original Soundtrack "Le Guepard")
Musical Theatre - Released by Soundtrack Records on 10 Oct 2018
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Il Bidone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Creazioni Artistiche Musicali on 21 May 2003
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Prova d'orchestra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. S.r.l. on 1 Jan 1979
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Music for Fellini, Pt. 1 (1952-58)
Film Soundtracks - Released by EL records on 26 Jul 2010
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I Clowns
Film Soundtracks - Released by Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. S.r.l on 1 Jan 1970
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