Nino Rota
Sound
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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movieChelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
2025
Original Music Composer
movieNew Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
2022
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movieOSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
2022
Original Music Composer
movieThe Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
Original Music Composer
Coursework
2000
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movieThe Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
Original Music Composer
movieBig Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
Original Music Composer
movieHurricane
1979
Original Music Composer
movieOrchestra Rehearsal
1979
Original Music Composer
movieDeath on the Nile
1978
Original Music Composer
movieContact
1978
Music
tvIl furto della gioconda
1978
Original Music Composer
tvMario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
Original Music Composer
movieFellini's Casanova
1976
Original Music Composer
tvOrigins of the Mafia
1976
Original Music Composer
movieDear Michele
1976
Original Music Composer
movieThe Godfather Part II
1974
Original Music Composer
movieThe Abdication
1974
Original Music Composer
movieAmarcord
1973
Original Music Composer
movieLove and Anarchy
1973
Original Music Composer
movieRoma
1972
Original Music Composer
movieThe Godfather
1972
Original Music Composer
movieThe Clowns
1970
Original Music Composer
movieWaterloo
1970
Original Music Composer
movieSatyricon
1969
Original Music Composer
movieFellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969
Original Music Composer
movieSpirits of the Dead
1968
Original Music Composer
movieRomeo and Juliet
1968
Original Music Composer
movieToby Dammit
1968
Music
movieThe Taming of the Shrew
1967
Original Music Composer
movieMuch Ado About Nothing
1967
Original Music Composer
movieShoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
1966
Original Music Composer
movieKiss the Other Sheik
1965
Original Music Composer
movieJuliet of the Spirits
1965
Original Music Composer
tvGian Burrasca's Diary
1964
Original Music Composer
movieThe Teacher from Vigevano
1963
Original Music Composer
movieThe Leopard
1963
Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
movie8½
1963
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movieThe Reluctant Saint
1962
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movieBoccaccio '70
1962
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movieThe Temptation of Dr. Antonio
1962
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movieThe Best of Enemies
1961
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movieThe Brigand
1961
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movieGhosts of Rome
1961
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movieRocco and His Brothers
1960
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moviePurple Noon
1960
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movieLa Dolce Vita
1960
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movieThe Great War
1959
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movieIl Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati
1958
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movieThe Law Is the Law
1958
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moviePiece of the Sky
1958
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movieFortunella
1958
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movieCity at Night
1958
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movieDoctor and the Healer
1957
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movieWhite Nights
1957
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movieThis Angry Age
1957
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movieNights of Cabiria
1957
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movieThe Most Wonderful Moment
1957
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movieThe House of Intrigue
1956
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movieWar and Peace
1956
Original Music Composer
movieIo piaccio
1955
Music
movieIt Happened in the Penitentiary
1955
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movieThe Swindle
1955
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movieLa bella di Roma
1955
Original Music Composer
movieA Hero of Our Times
1955
Original Music Composer
movieScampolo 53
1955
Music
movieDivisione Folgore
1954
Original Music Composer
movieThe Two Orphans
1954
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movieLa Strada
1954
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movieModern Virgin
1954
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movieMambo
1954
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moviePassionately
1954
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movieSubmarine Attack
1954
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movie100 Years of Love
1954
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movieLo scocciatore
1953
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movieThe Ship of Condemned Women
1953
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movieEasy Years
1953
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movieI Vitelloni
1953
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movieRiscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
1953
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movieThe Wild Oat
1953
Original Music Composer
movieJolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
1953
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movieGood Folk's Sunday
1953
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movieHell Raiders of the Deep
1953
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movieImmortal Melodies
1952
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movieNoi due soli
1952
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movieRagazze da marito
1952
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movieThe Queen of Sheba
1952
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movieI tre corsari
1952
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movieToto and the Kings of Rome
1952
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movieVenetian Bird
1952
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movieThe White Sheik
1952
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movieMarito e Moglie
1952
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movieWonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
1952
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movieUn ladro in paradiso
1952
Original Music Composer
movieAnna
1951
Original Music Composer
movieIt's Him!... Yes! Yes!
1951
Original Music Composer
movieFilumena Marturano
1951
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movieValley of the Eagles
1951
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movieHoneymoon Deferred
1951
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movieNapoleone
1951
Music
movieWhite Corridors
1951
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movieIl monello della strada
1950
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movieThe Knight is Here
1950
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movieThe King's Guerrillas
1950
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movieA Dog’s Life
1950
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movieSide Street Story
1950
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movieHer Favourite Husband
1950
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movieIt's Forever Springtime
1950
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movieThe Pirates of Capri
1949
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movieCampane a martello
1949
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movieObsession
1949
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movieCome scopersi l'America
1949
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movieToto Tours Italy
1948
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movieWoman Trouble
1948
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movieUnder the Sun of Rome
1948
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movieWithout Pity
1948
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movieL'eroe della strada
1948
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movieArrivederci, papà!
1948
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movieGuaglio
1948
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movieEscape to France
1948
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movieLovers Without Love
1948
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movieHow I Lost the War
1947
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movieDaniele Cortis
1947
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movieTo Live in Peace
1947
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movieRome: Free City
1946
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movieProfessor, My Son
1946
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movieUn americano in vacanza
1946
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movieThe Misery of Mr. Travet
1945
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movieLo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
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movieLa freccia nel fianco
1945
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movieWoman of the Mountains
1944
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movieZazà
1944
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movieGiorno di nozze
1942
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movieTourist Train
1933
Original Music Composer
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movieThe Magic of Fellini
2002
Self (archive footage)
movieA Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
1994
Self (archive footage)
movieNino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert
1993
Self (archive footage)
Nino
Self (archive) - subject
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Cinephile
2013
Compositors
movieThe Hunt
1953
Compositor
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movieAlbergo Luna, camera 34
1946
Director of Photography