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Armando Trovajoli
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them j…
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Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola. Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013. After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse, a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers, in a style extremely refined and sophisticated, very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time. Together with Goffredo Petrassi, Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949). In 1951, Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna, a film directed by Alberto Lattuada: particularly the song El Negro Zumbón became an international success: inspired by tropical rhythms, is sung in playback and danced by Silvana Mangano, but actually performed by Flo Sandon's. Since then, Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors as Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola and others, for a total of over 300 scores. Source: Article "Armando Trovajoli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2018
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Movie Music
- 2010
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2010
Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Movie Music
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2006
Marcello, una vita dolce
Movie Self
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2004
Lives of the Saints
TV show Music
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2003
People of Rome
Movie Original Music Composer
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2003
La notte di Pasquino
Movie Original Music Composer
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2001
Unfair Competition
Movie Original Music Composer
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1998
Rugantino
Movie Original Music Composer
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1998
The Dinner
Movie Music
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1997
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Movie Original Music Composer
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1996
Giovani e belli
Movie Music
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1995
The Story of a Poor Young Man
Movie Original Music Composer
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1993
Mario, Maria and Mario
Movie Original Music Composer
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1993
Berlin '39
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
Centro storico
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
Gangsters
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Movie Original Music Composer
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1991
The Wicked
Movie Music
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1990
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Movie Original Music Composer
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1990
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Movie Original Music Composer
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1989
What Time Is It?
Movie Original Music Composer
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1989
Running Away
Movie Music
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1989
Splendor
Movie Music
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1988
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Movie Original Music Composer
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1988
Miss Arizona
Movie Original Music Composer
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1987
The Family
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
A Thorn in the Heart
Movie Music
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1985
Macaroni
Movie Original Music Composer
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1984
Frankenstein 90
Movie Original Music Composer
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1983
Le Bal
Movie Music Consultant
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1983
Dagger Eyes
Movie Music
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1983
Sing Sing
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
Count Tacchia
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
The Balad of Mamelouk
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
More Beautiful Than Me You Die
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
Viuuulentemente mia
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
That Night of Varennes
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
The Paramedic
Movie Original Music Composer
