Nino Rota

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Nino Rota from Milan was a child prodigy who studied in Milan, Rome and at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. From Lo sceicco bianco (1952) he wrote the music for all of Federico Fellini's films until 1979. His Fellini music sounds like circus and fairground: marches, waltzes, melancholy trumpet melodies. In La strada (1954) the trumpet melody of Gelsomina is the heart of the film. For Luchino Visconti he wrote Il Gattopardo (1963). Worldwide fame came with The Godfather (1972). That score was disqualified for an Oscar because Rota had reused an older theme of his own. For The Godfather Part II he did win in 1975.

Listening

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  Gelsomina · Nino Rota, 1954
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  La passerella di addio · Nino Rota, 1963
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  Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) · Nino Rota, 1972
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  La Strada · Nino Rota, 1954
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  La dolce vita · Nino Rota, 1960
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  La passerella di Otto e mezzo · Nino Rota, 1963

Discography

Studio albums

• 1956War and Peace (soundtrack)
• 1960La dolce vita (soundtrack)
• 1961Il brigante (soundtrack)
• 1961Rocco e i suoi fratelli (soundtrack)
• 19638½ (soundtrack)
• 1963Il gattopardo (soundtrack)
• 1963Mysterium Catholicum
• 1965Giulietta degli spiriti (soundtrack)
• 1967The Taming of the Shrew (soundtrack)
• 1968Romeo & Juliet (soundtrack)
• 1970Fellini Satyricon (soundtrack)
• 1970Waterloo (soundtrack)
• 1972The Godfather: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 1973Film d'amore e d'anarchia (soundtrack)
• 1973Roma (soundtrack)
• 1974Amarcord (soundtrack)
• 1974The Abdication (soundtrack)
• 1974The Godfather, Part II (soundtrack)
• 1976Alle origini della Mafia (soundtrack)
• 1976Le Molière imaginaire (soundtrack)
• 1977Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (soundtrack)
• 1978Death on the Nile (soundtrack)
• 1979Hurricane (soundtrack)
• 1980Fortunella (soundtrack)
• 1986Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Rota: Concerto for Strings; Elgar: Serenade
• 1987Federico Fellini’s Intervista (soundtrack)
• 1990The Godfather, Part II (soundtrack)
• 1991I clowns (soundtrack)
• 1991Il bidone (soundtrack)
• 1991Prova d'orchestra (soundtrack)
• 1992Accadde al penitenziario / Un eroe dei nostri tempi (soundtrack)
• 1992Il gattopardo
• 1992La Strada / Le Notti di Cabiria: The original film soundtracks (soundtrack)
• 1993Film Music
• 1994Shoot Loud, Louder. . . I Don't Understand (soundtrack)
• 1995Il gattopardo
• 1995Italian Compositions of the 20th Century
• 1997Chamber Music
• 1997Music for Film
• 1998Symphonies no. 1 & 2
• 1998Two Piano Concertos
• 1999Nino Rota plays Nino Rota
• 1999The Film Music of Nino Rota
• 20002 Concerti per pianoforte
• 2000Chamber Music
• 2000Chamber Music
• 2001Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2
• 2001Symphony no. 3 / Concerto festivo / Le Molière imaginaire, ballet suite
• 2002Concertos
• 2003La strada / Concertos
• 2003Il gattopardo
• 2005Il gattopardo
• 2005Plein soleil (soundtrack)
• 2005The Romantic Harp
• 200620th Century Italian String Music
• 2006Nino Rota: La Strada / Kurt Weill: Symphonie nº 2
• 2009Concerto per violoncello n. 2 / Concerto per archi / Trio per clarinetto, cello e piano
• 2009Serenata italiana
• 2009Symphonies nos. 1 & 2
• 2009The Violin Sonata Around 1900
• 2010Piano Concertos
• 2011Fellini Satyricon / Fellini Roma (soundtrack)
• 2011Symphony no. 3 / Divertomento concertante / Concerto soirée
• 2012La Strada (soundtrack)
• 201320th-Century Italian Clarinet Solos
• 2013Basso Bailando
• 2013Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sexmob Plays Fellini
• 2013Il furto della Gioconda (soundtrack)
• 2013Orchestral Works: Il Padrino / Cello Concertos / Variazioni Sopra Un Tema Gioviale / The Legend Of The Glass Mountain
• 2013Prova d'orchestra
• 2013War and Peace
• 2014The Godfather Trilogy parts I, II, III (soundtrack)
• 2015Toby Dammit (soundtrack)
• 2016Sacred Works: Mysterium / C'Era Una Volta Nella Grotta / Il Presepio / Il Natale Degli Innocenti
• 2017Il corno italiano
• 2017Orchestral Works: Boccaccio '70 / Sinfonie N. 1, 2, 3 / Allegro Danzante / Elegia
• 2017La Strada
• 2019My Double Bass
• 2019Sunset Sunrise (soundtrack)
• 2019The Fellini Album: The Film Music of Nino Rota
• 2019Works for Harp
• 2020Chamber Works
• 2020Chamber Works
• 2020Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 1
• 2020Spheres
• 2021Chamber Music
• 2023Il cappello di paglia di Firenze
• 2023Impressions d’enfance
• 2025Cinema Memories: Works for Violin and Piano
• 2025Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 2
• 2025Images
• ?Film D'Amore e D'Anarchia (soundtrack)
• ?La dolce vita

Other work

• 1952Lo sceicco bianco
• 1972The Godfather

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 2^NL Reader
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 3^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• New Hollywood GenreThe Italian Nino Rota gave The Godfather (1972) a melancholy waltz that begins with a lonely trumpet.
• Italian auteur cinema (Fellini, Visconti) GenreTheir most important musical partner was Nino Rota, who studied in Milan and Rome and also wrote operas and concert works.

See also

• Italian auteur cinema (Fellini, Visconti)
• New Hollywood
• Italian neorealism
• Danny Elfman
• Nicola Piovani