Armando Trovajoli
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- September 2, 1917
- Died
- February 28, 2013 (aged 95)
- Birthplace
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Volta ao Mundo
Movie · Musician
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Movie · Music
Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Movie · Music
Marcello, una vita dolce
Movie · Music
Lives of the Saints
TV · Music · 2 eps
La notte di Pasquino
Movie · Original Music Composer
People of Rome
Movie · Original Music Composer
Unfair Competition
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rugantino
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Dinner
Movie · Music
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Movie · Original Music Composer
Giovani e belli
Movie · Music
The Story of a Poor Young Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mario, Maria and Mario
Movie · Original Music Composer
Berlin '39
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gangsters
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Movie · Original Music Composer
Centro storico
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Wicked
Movie · Music
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Movie · Original Music Composer
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Movie · Original Music Composer
What Time Is It?
Movie · Original Music Composer
Splendor
Movie · Music
Running Away
Movie · Music
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Movie · Original Music Composer
Miss Arizona
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Family
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Thorn in the Heart
Movie · Music
Macaroni
Movie · Original Music Composer
Frankenstein 90
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sing Sing
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le Bal
Movie · Music Consultant
Dagger Eyes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Movie · Original Music Composer
Viuuulentemente mia
Movie · Original Music Composer
Count Tacchia
Movie · Original Music Composer
That Night of Varennes
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Balad of Mamelouk
Movie · Original Music Composer
More Beautiful Than Me You Die
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Paramedic
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shut Up When You Speak!
Movie · Music
Passion of Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Perché non facciamo l'amore
Movie · Music
Arrivano i bersaglieri
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Terrace
Movie · Original Music Composer
La amante ingenua
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Movie · Original Music Composer
Life Is Beautiful
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Swap
Movie · Music
My Loves
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rugantino
Movie · Music
Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Special Day
Movie · Original Music Composer
The New Monsters
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Bishop's Bedroom
Movie · Original Music Composer
In the Name of the Pope King
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wifemistress
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Career of a Chambermaid
Movie · Original Music Composer
Luna di miele in tre
Movie · Original Music Composer
La banca di Monate
Movie · Music
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Movie · Original Music Composer
Keep It To Yourself!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Movie · Original Music Composer
Blackmail Chase
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shadows in an Empty Room
Movie · Original Music Composer
Evil Thoughts
Movie · Music
Duck in Orange Sauce
Movie · Original Music Composer
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Movie · Original Music Composer
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Way of the Baboons
Movie · Original Music Composer
Scent of a Woman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Sensual Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
La Tosca
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rugantino
Movie · Original Music Composer
Love and Gymnastics
Movie · Music
How Funny Can Sex Be?
Movie · Original Music Composer
It Was I
Movie · Music
The Migratory Bird
Movie · Music
The Italian Connection
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Movie · Music
The Valachi Papers
Movie · Original Music Composer
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Movie · Original Music Composer
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Movie · Original Music Composer
Homo Eroticus
Movie · Music
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Double
Movie · Original Music Composer
That's How We Women Are
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Priest's Wife
Movie · Original Music Composer
May Morning
Movie · Music
The Married Priest
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Movie · Original Music Composer
I See Naked
Movie · Original Music Composer
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Conspirators
Movie · Original Music Composer
Police Chief Pepe
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lovemaker
Movie · Original Music Composer
Normal Young Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
How, When, and with Whom
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Bullet for Rommel
Movie · Music
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Movie · Original Music Composer
Seven Times Seven
Movie · Original Music Composer
Faustina
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Libertine
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Prophet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fuller Report, Base Stockholm
Movie · Original Music Composer
Acid Delirium of the Senses
Movie · Original Music Composer
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Movie · Original Music Composer
La Famiglia Benvenuti
TV · Original Music Composer · 13 eps
Anyone Can Play
Movie · Original Music Composer
Deadly Sweet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Long Days of Vengeance
Movie · Original Music Composer
Assault on the State Treasure
Movie · Original Music Composer
Don Juan in Sicily
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Movie · Original Music Composer
Maigret at the Pigalle
Movie · Music
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Movie · Original Music Composer
So This Is God's Country?
Movie · Music
The Spy Who Loved Flowers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Adultery Italian Style
Movie · Original Music Composer
Our Husbands
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Devil in Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Kill, Baby... Kill!
Movie · Music
The Queens
Movie · Original Music Composer
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Movie · Original Music Composer
Casanova '70
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Complexes
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Dolls
Movie · Original Music Composer
Assassination in Rome
Movie · Original Music Composer
Violence and Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Marriage Italian Style
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Let's Talk About Women
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il gaucho
Movie · Original Music Composer
High Infidelity
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Un momento muy largo
Movie · Music
The Thursday
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Beautiful Families
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Wife
Movie · Original Music Composer
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Movie · Original Music Composer
Una storia di notte
Movie · Sound
Attack and Retreat
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gli onorevoli
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Monk of Monza
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Monsters
Movie · Original Music Composer
In Italia si chiama amore
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Scapegoat
Movie · Music
The Visitor
Movie · Original Music Composer
Totò sexy
Movie · Original Music Composer
I terribili sette
Movie · Original Music Composer
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Movie · Original Music Composer, Music Director
Always on Sunday
Movie · Sound, Original Music Composer
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Four Monks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Warriors Five
Movie · Original Music Composer
East Zone, West Zone
Movie · Music
Il mio amico Benito
Movie · Original Music Composer
Toto at Night
Movie · Original Music Composer
Alone Against Rome
Movie · Original Music Composer
Boccaccio '70
Movie · Original Music Composer
Down with Uncle
Movie · Music
Planets Around Us
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Giant of Metropolis
Movie · Original Music Composer
His Women
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ten Italians for One German
Movie · Original Music Composer
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Movie · Music
Ghosts of Rome
Movie · Conductor
The Orderly
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fists, Girls and Sailors
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Laura nuda
Movie · Music
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Movie · Original Music Composer
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Grand Olympics
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hercules in the Haunted World
Movie · Original Music Composer
Slave of Rome
Movie · Music
A Soldier and a Half
Movie · Original Music Composer
Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Il corazziere
Movie · Original Music Composer
I piaceri dello scapolo
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Atom Age Vampire
Movie · Original Music Composer
Questo amore ai confini del mondo
Movie · Music
Two Women
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Movie · Original Music Composer
Little Girls and High Finance
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le pillole di Ercole
Movie · Music
La Dolce Vita
Movie · Music Arranger
I piaceri del sabato notte
Movie · Music
The Widower
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Poor Millionaires
Movie · Original Music Composer
La cento chilometri
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Winter Holidays
Movie · Original Music Composer
A qualcuna piace calvo
Movie · Original Music Composer
Uncle Was a Vampire
Movie · Original Music Composer, Music Director
Camping
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il cocco di mamma
Movie · Original Music Composer
America By Night
Movie · Music
Caravan of songs
Movie · Conductor
Bravissimo
Movie · Conductor
The Prince with the Red Mask
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le Amiche
Movie · Musician
A Day in Court
Movie · Original Music Composer
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Of Life and Love
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Woman of the River
Movie · Original Music Composer
Funniest Show on Earth
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Era lei che lo voleva!
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Unfaithfuls
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Brothers of Italy
Movie · Music
Girls Marked Danger
Movie · Original Music Composer