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Nino Rota
Milano, Lombardia, Italia
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 fi…
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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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2026
Nino – A Film About Nino Rota
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2025
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2024
Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
Movie Compositor
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2022
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2018
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2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Movie Music
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2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
Cinephile
Movie Compositors
- 2011
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2002
The Magic of Fellini
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Coursework
Movie Original Music Composer
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1998
Red Market
Movie Music
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1995
The Lion with the White Beard
Movie Music
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1994
In morte di Federico Fellini
Movie Music
More credits
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1994
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie Original Music Composer
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1990
The Godfather Part III
Movie Additional Music
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1988
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
Movie Sound
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1987
Groper Train: Check With Your Finger
Movie Music
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1986
Groper Train: Interconnected
Movie Music
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1985
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Movie Original Music Composer
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1981
Murad Kazhlayev. Rhythms and Years
Movie Self
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1979
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
TV show Music
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1979
Hurricane
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
Orchestra Rehearsal
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Death on the Nile
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Contact
Movie Music
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1978
Il furto della gioconda
TV show Original Music Composer
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1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV show Original Music Composer
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1977
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
Movie Music
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1976
Fellini's Casanova
Movie Original Music Composer
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1976
Origins of the Mafia
TV show Original Music Composer
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1976
Dear Michele
Movie Original Music Composer
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1975
The Song Is Always With Us
Movie Music
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1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie Music
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1974
The Godfather Part II
Movie Original Music Composer
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1974
The Abdication
Movie Original Music Composer
