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Exceptional and Unique: Nino Rota

No other European or American film composer had the courage to write music as Nino Rota wrote it



From his time as a student of the 20th century avant-garde composers Ildebrand Pizzeti and Alfredo Casella, Nino Rota (1911-1979) composed classic music all his life: operas, ballets, orchestral and chamber music, pieces for the choir… Additionally, he composed music for theatre plays, but nevertheless he is primarily regarded as a composer of film music.

As a composer of soundtracks he worked with the most eminent directors: Albert Lattuada, Franco Zeffirelli, Renato Castellani, Luchino Visconti, Francis Ford Coppola, René Clément, Edward Dmytrik, Eduardo de Filippo… Still, his most famous collaborations on film are with Federico Fellini. Fellini’s films, such as The Road (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), The Sweet Life (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), Satyricon (1969), Amarcord (1973) and others inspired the composer’s imagination, resulting in