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My old economics teacher used to use the the phrase - ' there are lies, damn lies and there are statistics'
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Realizing that most of this thread's content is from the end of 2004 - with additional posts of more recent vintage, I am nevertheless intrigued by the paucity of (non-Morricone) Italian composers as well as Golden Age Hollywood.
I'll deposit my Golden Age data (pre-1964) in a subsequent post later on, but in this entry are Italians who were writing for films prior to the Italian industry's obligating their composers to follow Morricone's soundtrack blueprints.
114 titles by Piero Piccioni
76 by Ennio Morricone
66 by A.F. Lavagnino
65 by Carlo Savina
48 by Armando Trovajoli
43 by Riz Ortolani
34 by Carlo Rustichelli
32 by Mario Nascimbene
18 by Giovanni Fusco
16 by Piero Umiliani
12 by Gianni Ferrio
11 by Roberto Nicolosi
9 by Gino Marrinuzzi jr
8 by Francesco de Masi
6 by Teo Usuelli
5 by Marcello Giombini
4 by Roman Vlad
3 by Alessandro Cicognini
There are more than those above, but my focus here is upon the pre-Euro-Western/pre-Leone era since it seems that most U.K./U.S. FSMers cite Morricone (but hardly any other Italians) within their top 10s or top 5s.
Could be, also, that there exists greater consumption of Italian soundtracks in the Japanese and German markets - but such customers likely don't frequent this English-centric message board...
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For my Golden Age category, I've gathered those composers whose filmographies contain more than a couple of titles prior to the mid-'60s shift towards pop music scoring. This includes 'Silver' agers who began writing for films during the late-'50s/early-'60s.
180 by Jerry Goldsmith
70 by Elmer Bernstein
58 by Bernard Herrmann
44 by Alex North
42 by Franz Waxman
34 by Hugo Friedhofer
31 by Miklos Rozsa
31 by Leonard Rosenman
27 by Dimitri Tiomkin
23 by Gerald Fried (includes private pressings)
21 by Bronislau Kaper
20 by George Duning
(considering all his TV episode scores from the '60s, Dominic Frontiere would be @ 20, also)
18 by David Raksin
17 by Ronald Stein
17 by Laurence Rosenthal
14 by Alfred Newman
14 by Andre Previn
13 by Leigh Harline
12 by Sol Kaplan
12 by John(ny) Mandel
10 for Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter, Malcolm Arnold, Nathan Van Cleave, Mikis Theodorakis, & Richard Rodney Bennett
9 by Henry Mancini
8 for Max Steiner, Les Baxter & Lyn Murray
7 by Benjamin Frankel
6 for Victor Young, Kenyon Hopkins & Ernest Gold
5 by Leith Stevens
4 by Herschel Burke Gilbert
3 by David Amram
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