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Jul 2, 2014 - 4:31 PM
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ToneRow
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A loaded question.
The # of top Italian film composers flucuates along with the shifting time periods of recognition.
I venture to say that the initial top 3 from the 1950s would likely be:
Alessandro Cicognini
Mario Nascimbene
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
By the late 1950s, each had at least one of their film scores released on an American record label.
By 1960, though, the international art film scene witnessed the ascent of Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA) and Antonioni (L'AVVENTURA).
The faces of the 'top 3' during the first half of the 1960s would be altered to include:
Nino Rota (for Fellini)
Giovanni Fusco (for Antonioni)
Piero Piccioni (for other directors such as F. Rosi, A. Lattuada, M. Bolognini, etc.)
During this time period, Riz Ortolani and Armando Trovajoli also began accruing interest.
Trovajoli was associated with films by V. De Sica and/or starring Sophia Loren.
MONDO CANE got Ortolani noticed, and Riz started to receive commisions to score English language productions (consider that the producer and director of the V.I.Ps did not hire Miklos Rozsa for THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROCYE - they engaged Ortolani instead).
By the mid-1960s, the popularity of the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood westerns gave reign to Ennio Morricone as the leading Italian film composer.
I'll let other members chime in with what they consider as top 3 Italian composers for the 1970s and onwards.
... then there are those FSMers who have no interest nor familiarity with anything or anyone associated with Italian film-making (or any non-English/non-Hollywood production at that) ...
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Tone row you are being deliberately difficult!! Ha ha
You know perfectly well Tg meant piccioni and nicolai.
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See told you. You coulda answered without even posting!!!
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Or makin me post twice.
As usual.
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Piero Piccioni was the John Barry of Italian film composers. I'd have to rank him equally with Morricone. Unfortunately, Piccioni is practically unknown in North America. You'd have to be a serious film score fan to know who he is, while Morricone is definitely known by the common film goer, thanks to the Dollars trilogy.
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