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Sep 16, 2021 - 10:52 AM
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slint
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I can't hear the difference between Bruno Nicolai and Morricone and if Nicolai is almost as good, why most people don't know who he is ? No articles in magazines, no books (not sure), almost no greatest hits albums on lps or cds, etc. Is it possible that he is the greatest underrated soundtrack composer
Bruno Nicolai did particularly well with Giallo, orchestral lounge and modern drama scores using Edda Dell'Orso wordless vocals, but Morricone arguably had more impact overall on many more genres: Avant-Garde music, symphonic scores, westerns, crime and police films, etc.
Of course if you include conducting work, Bruno Nicolai was there for all these memorable Morricone scores but it is difficult to know the extent of his contribution.
Bruno Nicolai had much less international visibility and scored no American films. So it is not surprising he is not discussed here. Take the example of Georges Delerue for instance: he had a long career in France but his American films are completely dominant here, which doesn't make much sense to me as I'm more familiar with French films. But compared to other Italian composers Nicolai's visibility is pretty decent here. For instance we talk even less about Daniele Patucchi or Berto Pisano, who I think were similarly strong to Bruno Nicolai in the early 70s.
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According to director,Sollima, Morricone actually wrote Run Man Run.
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According to director,Sollima, Morricone actually wrote Run Man Run.
Not this old chestnut dug up again. Dont be mischievious damian. It doesn't matter what an 80 plus year old man says trying to promote his dvd release n give his film greater kudos. Anyone with even limited experience of Nicolai's scores should be able to hear its pure Nicolai.
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According to director,Sollima, Morricone actually wrote Run Man Run.
Not this old chestnut dug up again. Dont be mischievious damian. It doesn't matter what an 80 plus year old man says trying to promote his dvd release n give his film greater kudos. Anyone with even limited experience of Nicolai's scores should be able to hear its pure Nicolai.
I wasn't being mischievous, honest. 
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Dozens upon dozens of composers are more under-rated than Bruno Nicolai.
Here are some whom I think wrote better music than Nicolai:
Jean Prodromides
Pierre Jansen
Roberto Nicolosi
Tristram Cary
Meyer Kupferman
Luis de Pablo
Carlo Savina
Humphrey Searle
Stanley Myers
Dominic Frontiere
Sei Ikeno
Mario Migliardi
Robert O. Ragland
Elisabeth Lutyens
Hikaru Hayashi
Gino Marinuzzi jr.
Phillip Lambro
Tadeusz Baird
Wilfred Josephs
Waldo de los Rios
Loek Dikker
Paul Glass
Gerard Schurmann
Giovanni Fusco
Hans-Martin Majewski
Marc Wilkinson
Daniele Amfitheatrof
Giorgio Gaslini
Frank Cordell
Harry Robinson,
Yasushi Akutagawa
Roman Vlad
Don Banks
Georges Garvarentz
Matyas Seiber
Michel Magne
Takeo Yamashita
Van Cleave
Paul Misraki
William Kraft
Maurice Leroux
Francis Chagrin
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