Nino Rota
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- December 3, 1911
- Died
- April 10, 1979 (aged 67)
- Birthplace
- Milano, Lombardia, Italia
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Movie · Original Music Composer
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Movie · Music
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Movie · Original Music Composer
OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
Movie · Music
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Movie · Music
Coursework
Movie · Original Music Composer
Red Market
Movie · Music
The Lion with the White Beard
Movie · Music
In morte di Federico Fellini
Movie · Music
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie · Original Music Composer
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
Movie · Sound
Groper Train: Check With Your Finger
Movie · Music
Groper Train: Interconnected
Movie · Music
Shin mibôjin geshuku: Magari anagari
Movie · Music
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Movie · Original Music Composer
Orchestra Rehearsal
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Hurricane
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
TV · Music · 4 eps
Death on the Nile
Movie · Original Music Composer
Contact
Movie · Music
Il furto della gioconda
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
Movie · Music
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Dear Michele
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fellini's Casanova
Movie · Original Music Composer
Origins of the Mafia
TV · Original Music Composer · 5 eps
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie · Music
The Song Is Always With Us
Movie · Music
The Godfather Part II
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
Movie · Music
The Abdication
Movie · Original Music Composer
Amarcord
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Love and Anarchy
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Sunset Sunrise
Movie · Music
Roma
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The Godfather
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Waterloo
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The Clowns
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Satyricon
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Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
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Romeo and Juliet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spirits of the Dead
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Toby Dammit
Movie · Music
The Taming of the Shrew
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Movie · Original Music Composer
Juliet of the Spirits
Movie · Original Music Composer
Kiss the Other Sheik
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gian Burrasca's Diary
TV · Original Music Composer · 8 eps
The Leopard
Movie · Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
8½
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The Teacher from Vigevano
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The Reluctant Saint
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Boccaccio '70
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The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
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Ghosts of Rome
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The Best of Enemies
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The Brigand
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La Dolce Vita
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Purple Noon
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Rocco and His Brothers
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The Great War
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Piece of the Sky
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Fortunella
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The Law Is the Law
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Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati
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City at Night
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Movie · Music
White Nights
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Doctor and the Healer
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Italia piccola
Movie · Music
The Most Wonderful Moment
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Nights of Cabiria
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This Angry Age
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War and Peace
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The House of Intrigue
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It Happened in the Penitentiary
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Io piaccio
Movie · Music
The Swindle
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A Hero of Our Times
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Scampolo 53
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La bella di Roma
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La Strada
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The Stranger's Hand
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100 Years of Love
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Passionately
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The Two Orphans
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Divisione Folgore
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Submarine Attack
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Mambo
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Modern Virgin
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Loves of Three Queens
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Star of India
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I Vitelloni
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Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
Movie · Music
Good Folk's Sunday
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Easy Years
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Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
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Lo scocciatore
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Hell Raiders of the Deep
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The Ship of Condemned Women
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Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
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The Wild Oat
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The White Sheik
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Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
Movie · Original Music Composer
I tre corsari
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The Queen of Sheba
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Noi due soli
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Toto and the Kings of Rome
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Marito e Moglie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ragazze da marito
Movie · Original Music Composer
Un ladro in paradiso
Movie · Original Music Composer
Something Money Can't Buy
Movie · Music
Venetian Bird
Movie · Original Music Composer
Immortal Melodies
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Valley of the Eagles
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White Corridors
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Anna
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Filumena Marturano
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Honeymoon Deferred
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Napoleone
Movie · Music
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
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The Knight is Here
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It's Forever Springtime
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Il monello della strada
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A Dog’s Life
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Her Favourite Husband
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Twelve Hours to Live
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Side Street Story
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The King's Guerrillas
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Obsession
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Campane a martello
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Come scopersi l'America
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Children of Chance
Movie · Music
The Pirates of Capri
Movie · Original Music Composer
Toto Tours Italy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Guaglio
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Under the Sun of Rome
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Escape to France
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Lovers Without Love
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Woman Trouble
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L'eroe della strada
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Arrivederci, papà!
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Without Pity
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How I Lost the War
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When Love Calls
Movie · Music
To Live in Peace
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Daniele Cortis
Movie · Original Music Composer
Un americano in vacanza
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Rome: Free City
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Albergo Luna, camera 34
Movie · Music
Professor, My Son
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
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The Misery of Mr. Travet
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La freccia nel fianco
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Zazà
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Woman of the Mountains
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Daddy's Little Devil
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Giorno di nozze
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Tourist Train
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