Nino Rota

Known For

Sound

Born

Dec 03, 1911

Died

Apr 10, 1979

Place of Birth

Milano, Lombardia, Italia

Credits

170 titles

Nino Rota

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

2026

Nino – A Film About Nino Rota

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2025

Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025

Original Music Composer

Movie
2025

Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025

Music

Movie
2024

Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies

Compositor

Movie
2022

New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Original Music Composer

Movie
2022

OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod

Original Music Composer

Movie
2018

The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever

Music

Movie
2016

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'

Music

Movie
2013

Cinephile

Compositors

Movie
2011

La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota

Movie
2002

The Magic of Fellini

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2000

Coursework

Original Music Composer

Movie
1998

Red Market

Music

Movie
1995

The Lion with the White Beard

Music

Movie
1994

In morte di Federico Fellini

Music

Movie
1994

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1993

Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1992

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Original Music Composer

Movie
1990

The Godfather Part III

Additional Music

Movie
1988

Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite

Sound

Movie
1987

Groper Train: Check With Your Finger

Music

Movie
1986

Groper Train: Interconnected

Music

Movie
1985

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

Original Music Composer

Movie
1981

Murad Kazhlayev. Rhythms and Years

Self

Movie
1979

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Music

Tv
1979

Hurricane

Original Music Composer

Movie
1979

Orchestra Rehearsal

Original Music Composer

Movie
1978

Death on the Nile

Original Music Composer

Movie
1978

Contact

Music

Movie
1978

Il furto della gioconda

Original Music Composer

Tv
1977

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

Original Music Composer

Tv
1977

Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'

Music

Movie
1976

Fellini's Casanova

Original Music Composer

Movie
1976

Origins of the Mafia

Original Music Composer

Tv
1976

Dear Michele

Original Music Composer

Movie
1975

The Song Is Always With Us

Music

Movie
1975

E il Casanova di Fellini?

Music

Movie
1974

The Godfather Part II

Original Music Composer

Movie
1974

The Abdication

Original Music Composer

Movie
1974

The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'

Self

Movie
1973

Amarcord

Original Music Composer

Movie
1973

Sunset Sunrise

Music

Movie
1973

Love and Anarchy

Original Music Composer

Movie
1972

Roma

Original Music Composer

Movie
1972

The Godfather

Original Music Composer

Movie
1970

The Clowns

Original Music Composer

Movie
1970

Waterloo

Original Music Composer

Movie
1969

Satyricon

Original Music Composer

Movie
1969

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

Self

Movie
1968

Spirits of the Dead

Original Music Composer

Movie