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Giovanni 'Nino' Rota. Of Hal Willner's 1981 tribute album Amarcord Nino Rota. Fellini on Nino Rota: 'He was someone who had a rare quality belonging to the. We always love Muhal Richard Abrams in a duet setting – and this album's no exception, as it features the pianist playing in very spare formation with violinist Leroy Jenkins – improvising freely in a concert performance from 1977! Abrams tone is often very dark and earthy, which seems to bring out similar qualities in. While most of the themes here were composed by Nino Rota, there are two original pieces that extrapolate from various melodic and harmonic schema in Rota's work. All of the music here, with the exception of the themes from Amarcord and City of Women (the latter composed by Luis Bacalov), comes from Fellini's films of. Apr 1, 2010 - It's eight forty-five on Wednesday 31st March and I'm finally sitting down to write about Fellini's THE WHITE SHEIK. And by the way, the April Impossible Film Quiz will appear tomorrow morning. The movie starts with a blast of Nino Rota. 'This music?' 'They reused it?' I explain that Nino Rota's.
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Nino Rota (left) Born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi 3 December 1911, Italy Died 10 April 1979 ( 1979-04-10) (aged 67), Italy Occupation Composer Children Nina Rota (daughter) Giovanni ' Nino' Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his, notably for the films of and. He also composed the music for two of 's films, and for the first two films of 's trilogy, receiving the for for (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, five 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 as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years. Rota at age 12. Giovanni Rota was born into a musical family in. Rota was a renowned child prodigy—his first, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926. He studied at the Milan conservatory there under and then undertook serious study of composition under and at the in, graduating in 1930.
Encouraged by, Rota moved to the United States where he lived from 1930 to 1932. He won a scholarship to the of, where he was taught conducting by and had as an instructor in composition. Returning to Milan, he wrote a thesis on the composer.
Rota earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in, a title he held from 1950 until 1978. Film scores [ ] In his entry on Rota in the 1988 edition of The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Composers and Musicians, music scholar described Rota as 'brilliant' and stated that his musical style: '. Demonstrates a great facility and even felicity, with occasional daring excursions into. However his most durable compositions are related to his music for the cinema; he composed the sound tracks of a great number of films of the Italian director Federico Fellini covering the period from 1950 to 1979.'