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 Zeffirellis Shakespeare films and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppolas 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 1979an average of three scores each year over a 46year period and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid1950s 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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