Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈniːno ˈrɔːta riˈnaldi]; 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 screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, earning 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.

"Epic Cinema" - Great Film Music - 2026-03-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Salzburg Wind Philharmonic, Vol. 3 - 2026-02-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Nino Rota for two guitars - 2026-02-09T00:00:00.000000Z

I Clowns - 2026-02-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Il bidone (Original Soundtrack) - 2026-01-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Original Soundtrack) - 2026-01-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Otto e mezzo (8 ½) [Original Soundtrack / Remastered 2026] - 2026-01-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Rota: Piano Works - 2026-01-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Rota: Piano Works - 2026-01-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Daydreaming With Nino Rota (Original Soundtrack) - 2025-12-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Classics of the Cinema - 2025-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Rota: Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 2 - 2025-09-12T00:00:00.000000Z

"Film Music" - Classic Movie Themes - 2025-07-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Violin Shadows - 2025-05-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Cinema Classics - Iconic Film Scores by John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Howard Shore, Nino Rota, Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Maurice Jarre... - 2024-09-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Nino Rota: 15 Preludes - 2024-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Fellinirota - 2023-08-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze - 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Nino Rota: Film Music & Concertos - 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Film Music; Concertos - 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze - 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Deluxe Edition / Remastered 2022) - 2023-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Guerra e Pace - 2023-02-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Mysterium catholicum - oratorio per soli, coro e orchestra (First original remastered version - live recording) - 2023-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

La dolce vita (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Remastered 2022) - 2022-10-21T00:00:00.000000Z

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