Released album “Cinema Memories: Works for Violin and Piano”.
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Nino Rota
Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi 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 Or…
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entertainment · Italian composer (1911–1979) · composer · conductor · teacher · pianist · actor · screenwriter · film score composer · lecturer · musician · also Nino Rota, Rota
Born 4 December 1911 · Died 10 April 1979 · Q214665
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2025· 4 entries
Released album “Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “"Film Music" - Classic Movie Themes”.
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Released album “Images”.
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Il cappello di paglia di Firenze”.
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Released album “Impressions d’enfance”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Ten Songs for You”.
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2020· 4 entries
Released album “Spheres”.
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Released album “Chamber Works”.
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Released album “La dolce vita”.
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Released album “Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 1”.
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “The Fellini Album: The Film Music of Nino Rota”.
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Released album “Works for Harp”.
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Released album “My Double Bass”.
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2017· 4 entries
Released album “Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masters”.
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Released album “Orchestral Works: Boccaccio '70 / Sinfonie N. 1, 2, 3 / Allegro Danzante / Elegia”.
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Released album “Orchestral Works: La Strada (Complete Ballet) / Sinfonia Sopra Una Canzone D'Amore / Il Casanova Di Federico Fellini”.
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Released album “Il corno italiano”.
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Sacred Works: Mysterium / C'Era Una Volta Nella Grotta / Il Presepio / Il Natale Degli Innocenti”.
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2013· 6 entries
Released album “Basso Bailando”.
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Released album “Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sexmob Plays Fellini”.
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Released album “Orchestral Works: War and Peace / Bassoon and Trombone Concertos / Amarcord”.
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Released album “20th-Century Italian Clarinet Solos”.
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Released album “Orchestral Works: Le Molière Imaginaire / Rabelaisiana / Prova D'Orchestra”.
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Released album “Orchestral Works: Il Padrino / Cello Concertos / Variazioni Sopra Un Tema Gioviale / The Legend Of The Glass Mountain”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Collector”.
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Released album “Greatest Film Hits”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Symphony no. 3 / Divertomento concertante / Concerto soirée”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Piano Concertos”.
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Released album “The Mafia Movies”.
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2009· 5 entries
Released album “Concerto per violoncello n. 2 / Concerto per archi / Trio per clarinetto, cello e piano”.
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Released album “Symphonies nos. 1 & 2”.
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Released album “The Violin Sonata Around 1900”.
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Released album “Serenata italiana”.
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Released album “Gold Edition (50 Movie Themes Hits)”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Film Music Masterworks: Film Music by Nino Rota”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “20th Century Italian String Music”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Best of Federico Fellini & Nino Rota”.
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Released album “Federico Fellini & Nino Rota”.
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Released album “Nino Rota: La Strada / Kurt Weill: Symphonie nº 2”.
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2005· 4 entries
Released album “The Romantic Harp”.
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Released album “La Strada / Il Gattopardo / Concerto Soirée”.
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His opera Aladino e la lampada magica (Aladdin and the Magical Lamp), with Cosmin Ifrim in the title role, was performed in German translation at the Vienna State Opera and released on DVD
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Released album “LSD Roma”.
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Fellini-Rota: Three Original Motion Picture Soundtracks”.
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Released album “La Strada / Waltzes from "Il Gattopardo" / Sinfonia sopra una canzone d'amore”.
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Released album “La strada / Concertos”.
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Released album “The Essential Nino Rota Film Music Collection”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Concertos”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Symphony no. 3 / Concerto festivo / Le Molière imaginaire, ballet suite”.
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Released album “Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2”.
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Released album “Music for the Movies of Federico Fellini”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Chamber Music”.
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Released album “2 Concerti per pianoforte”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “The Film Music of Nino Rota”.
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Released album “Nino Rota plays Nino Rota”.
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Released album “Dancing With - Ballando con Nino Rota”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Symphonies no. 1 & 2”.
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Released album “Two Piano Concertos”.
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Released album “Symphony Collection”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Music for Film”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Italian Compositions of the 20th Century”.
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Released album “"La Strada" Ballet Suite / Concerto for Strings / Dances from "Il Gattopardo"”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Chansons pour Fellini”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Film Music”.
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Released album “Omaggio a / Homage to Federico Fellini”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Film Music: La strada / War and Peace / Il gattopardo / Waterloo”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Luis Bacalov plays Nino Rota”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Rota: Concerto for Strings; Elgar: Serenade”.
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1979· 4 entries
Died 1979-04-10.
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– 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 thirte
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Rota's music was the subject of Hal Willner's 1981 tribute album Amarcord Nino Rota, which featured several jazz musicians who were relatively unknown at the time who went on to become famous
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Released album “Hurricane”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Death on the Nile”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Il Casanova di Federico Fellini”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Alle origini della Mafia”.
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Released album “Le Molière imaginaire”.
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for The Godfather Part II (1975).
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1974· 4 entries
Released album “The Abdication”.
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Released album “The Godfather, Part II”.
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Released album “Toutes les musiques de film de Fellini”.
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Released album “Amarcord”.
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1973· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Original Music for The Godfather (1973).
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Released album “Film d'amore e d'anarchia”.
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Released album “Roma”.
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1972· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather (1972).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for The Godfather – Original Soundtrack Recording (1972).
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Released album “The Godfather: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Waterloo”.
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Released album “Fellini Satyricon”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Romeo & Juliet”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “The Taming of the Shrew”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Giulietta degli spiriti”.
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1963· 3 entries
Released album “Il gattopardo”.
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Released album “Mysterium Catholicum”.
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Released album “8½”.
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1961· 2 entries
Released album “Il brigante”.
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Released album “Rocco e i suoi fratelli”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “War and Peace”.
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1950· 1 entry
Rota's short opera, I due timidi (The Two Timid Ones), was presented by the Santa Fe Opera as part of their pre-season "One-Hour Opera" program in May/June 2008, as well as London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama as
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1949· 1 entry
Which was notable for the singing of Tito Gobbi
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1937· 1 entry
And began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he held from 1950 until 1978
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-12-04.
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