Nino Rota
Sound
1911-12-03 · Milano, Lombardia, Italia
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.
Filmography
TheatersNino – A Film About Nino Rota
2026 · Movie
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
2025 · Movie
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
2025 · Movie
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
2022 · Movie
OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
2022 · Movie
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
2018 · Movie
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016 · Movie
Cinephile
2013 · Movie
La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota
2011 · Movie
The Magic of Fellini
2002 · Movie
Coursework
2000 · Movie
Red Market
1998 · Movie
The Lion with the White Beard
1995 · Movie
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994 · Movie
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
1994 · Movie
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert
1993 · Movie
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · Movie
The Godfather Part III
1990 · Movie
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
1988 · Movie
Groper Train: Check With Your Finger
1987 · Movie
Shin mibôjin geshuku: Magari anagari
1986 · Movie
Groper Train: Interconnected
1986 · Movie
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985 · Movie
Murad Kazhlayev. Rhythms and Years
1981 · Movie
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
1979 · Series
Hurricane
1979 · Movie
Orchestra Rehearsal
1979 · Movie
Death on the Nile
1978 · Movie
Contact
1978 · Movie
Il furto della gioconda
1978 · Series
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Series
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
1977 · Movie
Fellini's Casanova
1976 · Movie
Origins of the Mafia
1976 · Series
Dear Michele
1976 · Movie
The Song Is Always With Us
1975 · Movie
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975 · Movie
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Movie
The Abdication
1974 · Movie
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
1974 · Movie
Amarcord
1973 · Movie
Sunset Sunrise
1973 · Movie
Love and Anarchy
1973 · Movie
Roma
1972 · Movie
The Godfather
1972 · Movie
The Clowns
1970 · Movie
Waterloo
1970 · Movie
Satyricon
1969 · Movie
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969 · Movie
Spirits of the Dead
1968 · Movie
Romeo and Juliet
1968 · Movie
Toby Dammit
1968 · Movie
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Movie
Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · Movie
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
1966 · Movie
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965 · Movie
Juliet of the Spirits
1965 · Movie
Gian Burrasca's Diary
1964 · Series
The Teacher from Vigevano
1963 · Movie
The Leopard
1963 · Movie
8½
1963 · Movie
The Reluctant Saint
1962 · Movie
Boccaccio '70
1962 · Movie
The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
1962 · Movie
The Best of Enemies
1961 · Movie
The Brigand
1961 · Movie
Ghosts of Rome
1961 · Movie
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · Movie
Purple Noon
1960 · Movie
La Dolce Vita
1960 · Movie
The Great War
1959 · Movie
Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati
1958 · Movie
The Law Is the Law
1958 · Movie
Piece of the Sky
1958 · Movie
The Italians They Are Crazy
1958 · Movie
Fortunella
1958 · Movie
City at Night
1958 · Movie
Doctor and the Healer
1957 · Movie
White Nights
1957 · Movie
This Angry Age
1957 · Movie
Nights of Cabiria
1957 · Movie
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957 · Movie
Italia piccola
1957 · Movie
The House of Intrigue
1956 · Movie
War and Peace
1956 · Movie
Io piaccio
1955 · Movie
It Happened in the Penitentiary
1955 · Movie
The Swindle
1955 · Movie
La bella di Roma
1955 · Movie
A Hero of Our Times
1955 · Movie
Scampolo 53
1955 · Movie
Divisione Folgore
1954 · Movie
Loves of Three Queens
1954 · Movie
The Two Orphans
1954 · Movie
La Strada
1954 · Movie
Modern Virgin
1954 · Movie
Mambo
1954 · Movie
Passionately
1954 · Movie
Submarine Attack
1954 · Movie
100 Years of Love
1954 · Movie
The Stranger's Hand
1954 · Movie
Star of India
1954 · Movie
The Hunt
1953 · Movie
Lo scocciatore
1953 · Movie
The Ship of Condemned Women
1953 · Movie
Easy Years
1953 · Movie
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
1953 · Movie
I Vitelloni
1953 · Movie
Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
1953 · Movie
The Wild Oat
1953 · Movie
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
1953 · Movie
Good Folk's Sunday
1953 · Movie
Hell Raiders of the Deep
1953 · Movie
Immortal Melodies
1952 · Movie
Noi due soli
1952 · Movie
Ragazze da marito
1952 · Movie
The Queen of Sheba
1952 · Movie
I tre corsari
1952 · Movie
Toto and the Kings of Rome
1952 · Movie
Venetian Bird
1952 · Movie
The White Sheik
1952 · Movie
Something Money Can't Buy
1952 · Movie
Marito e Moglie
1952 · Movie
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
1952 · Movie
Un ladro in paradiso
1952 · Movie
Anna
1951 · Movie
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
1951 · Movie
Filumena Marturano
1951 · Movie
Valley of the Eagles
1951 · Movie
Honeymoon Deferred
1951 · Movie
Napoleone
1951 · Movie
White Corridors
1951 · Movie
Il monello della strada
1950 · Movie
The Knight is Here
1950 · Movie
The King's Guerrillas
1950 · Movie
Twelve Hours to Live
1950 · Movie
A Dog’s Life
1950 · Movie
Side Street Story
1950 · Movie
Her Favourite Husband
1950 · Movie
It's Forever Springtime
1950 · Movie
The Pirates of Capri
1949 · Movie
Children of Chance
1949 · Movie
Campane a martello
1949 · Movie
Obsession
1949 · Movie
Come scopersi l'America
1949 · Movie
Toto Tours Italy
1948 · Movie
Woman Trouble
1948 · Movie
Under the Sun of Rome
1948 · Movie
Without Pity
1948 · Movie
L'eroe della strada
1948 · Movie
Arrivederci, papà!
1948 · Movie
Guaglio
1948 · Movie
Escape to France
1948 · Movie
Lovers Without Love
1948 · Movie
How I Lost the War
1947 · Movie
When Love Calls
1947 · Movie
Daniele Cortis
1947 · Movie
To Live in Peace
1947 · Movie
Rome: Free City
1946 · Movie
Professor, My Son
1946 · Movie
Un americano in vacanza
1946 · Movie
Albergo Luna, camera 34
1946 · Movie
The Misery of Mr. Travet
1945 · Movie
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945 · Movie
La freccia nel fianco
1945 · Movie
Woman of the Mountains
1944 · Movie
Zazà
1944 · Movie
Daddy's Little Devil
1943 · Movie
Giorno di nozze
1942 · Movie
Tourist Train
1933 · Movie