Carlo Savina
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Carlo Savina was an Italian composer and conductor who composed, arranged, and conducted music for films-and is especially remembered for being the music director of films such as The Godfather
(1972), Amarcord
(1973), and The Bear (1988).
Savina worked with many of the notable film score composers of the 20th century including: Ennio Morricone
, Armando Trovajoli, Nino Rota
, Mario Nascimbene
, Stanley Myers
, Stephen Sondheim
, Philippe Sarde
, and Miklos Rozsa
. His work ranged from composing music for frequent spaghetti western
s such as Johnny Oro to being the musical director and conductor in Federico Fellini
's Orchestra Rehearsal.
In 1985 he won the David di Donatello
Best Music award for the film score of Pizza Connection
.
. Carlo learned the violin as a child and went on to graduate from the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi in Turin where he studied piano, violin, composition, and conducting. In 1945 he began composing music for radio. Early in his career he was awarded a prize by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
. He started his own orchestra and soon was famous. In 1950 he began composing and arranging music for film. For the next thirty years he composed, arranged, and conducted music for over 200 films and became one of the most prolific, and perhaps underrated, screen and television composers of the 20th century.
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...
(1972), Amarcord
Amarcord
Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the fictional town of Borgo in 1930s Fascist Italy...
(1973), and The Bear (1988).
Savina worked with many of the notable film score composers of the 20th century including: Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
, Armando Trovajoli, Nino Rota
Nino Rota
Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
, Mario Nascimbene
Mario Nascimbene
Mario Nascimbene was one of the best known Italian film soundtrack composers of the 20th Century. His career spanned six decades, during which time he earned several awards for the innovative contents of his composing style...
, Stanley Myers
Stanley Myers
Stanley Myers , was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. Born in Birmingham, as a teenager Myers went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham...
, Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
, Philippe Sarde
Philippe Sarde
-Biography:Philippe Sarde was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.He is the brother of Alain Sarde. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988.-Selected filmography:...
, and Miklos Rozsa
Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...
. His work ranged from composing music for frequent spaghetti western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
s such as Johnny Oro to being the musical director and conductor in Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
's Orchestra Rehearsal.
In 1985 he won the David di Donatello
David di Donatello
David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...
Best Music award for the film score of Pizza Connection
Pizza Connection (film)
Pizza Connection is a 1985 Italian crime film directed by Damiano Damiani. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.-Cast:* Michele Placido as Mario Aloia* Mark Chase as Michele Aloia...
.
Biography
Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinet for the orchestra of Italian public radio broadcaster EIAREnte Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche
The Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche was the only public service broadcaster in Italy and the only one allowed to do so.-History:...
. Carlo learned the violin as a child and went on to graduate from the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi in Turin where he studied piano, violin, composition, and conducting. In 1945 he began composing music for radio. Early in his career he was awarded a prize by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
Accademia Musicale Chigiana
The Accademia Musicale Chigiana is a music institute in Siena, Italy. It was founded by Count Guido Chigi Saracini in 1932 as an international centre for advanced musical studies. It organises Master Classes in the major musical instruments as well as singing, conducting and composition...
. He started his own orchestra and soon was famous. In 1950 he began composing and arranging music for film. For the next thirty years he composed, arranged, and conducted music for over 200 films and became one of the most prolific, and perhaps underrated, screen and television composers of the 20th century.
Selected filmography
- 1988 The Bear
- 1985 Pizza ConnectionPizza Connection (film)Pizza Connection is a 1985 Italian crime film directed by Damiano Damiani. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.-Cast:* Michele Placido as Mario Aloia* Mark Chase as Michele Aloia...
- 1982 Hunters of the Golden CobraHunters of the Golden CobraHunters of the Golden Cobra is an Italian 1982 action film starring David Warbeck. It was directed by Antonio Margheriti....
- 1981 Comin' at Ya!
- 1979 Orchestra Rehearsal
- 1978 The Perfect CrimeThe Perfect Crime (film)The Perfect Crime is a 1978 crime film directed by Giuseppe Rosati and starring Leonard Mann.-Cast:* Leonard Mann - Paul De Revere* Alida Valli - Lady Clementine* Anthony Steel - Supt. Jeff Hawks* Janet Agren - Lady Gloria Boyd...
- 1978 SuggestionataSuggestionataSuggestionata is a 1978 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
- 1975 Savage Man Savage Beast
- 1974 The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
- 1974 Lisa and the DevilLisa and the DevilLisa and the Devil is a 1972 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava. The film has developed a cult following among fans of European horror, it is particularly praised by fans of Mario Bava. Like most of Bava's films Lisa and the Devil possesses inventively stylish direction and evokes an...
- 1974 The Stranger and the Gunfighter
- 1973 AmarcordAmarcordAmarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the fictional town of Borgo in 1930s Fascist Italy...
- 1973 Love and AnarchyLove and AnarchyLove and Anarchy is a 1973 film directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The story, set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, centers on Giannini's character, an anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini...
- 1972 The GodfatherThe GodfatherThe Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...
- 1972 Lisa and the DevilLisa and the DevilLisa and the Devil is a 1972 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava. The film has developed a cult following among fans of European horror, it is particularly praised by fans of Mario Bava. Like most of Bava's films Lisa and the Devil possesses inventively stylish direction and evokes an...
- 1972 Fellini's RomaRoma (1972 film)Roma, also known as Fellini's Roma, is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic film depicting director Federico Fellini's move from his native Rimini to Rome as a youth. It is formed by a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only character to develop significantly is...
- 1972 Naked Girl Killed in the ParkNaked Girl Killed in the ParkNaked Girl Killed in the Park is a 1972 thriller film directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring Robert Hoffmann.-Cast:* Robert Hoffmann - Chris Buyer* Pilar Velázquez - Catherine Wallenberger* Irina Demick - Magda Wallenberger...
- 1971 Eye of the SpiderEye of the SpiderEye of the Spider is a 1971 Italian crime film directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starring Klaus Kinski.-Cast:* Klaus Kinski - Hans Fischer* Antonio Sabato - Paul Valéry / Frank Vogel* Van Johnson - Prof. Orson Krüger* Lucretia Love - Gloria...
- 1970 The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a 1970 Italian film, directed by Vittorio de Sica. It stars Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger. The film is based upon Giorgio Bassani's novel of the same name.-Plot:...
- 1970 And God Said to CainAnd God Said to CainAnd God Said to Cain is a 1970 Italian Western film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Klaus Kinski.Gary Hamilton is granted a free pardon from a prison work camp and heads out after the men who framed him...
- 1968 A Long Ride from HellA Long Ride From HellA Long Ride from Hell, in the original Italian known as Vivo per la tua morte , is a 1968 film directed by Camillo Brazzoni. It was based on the novel Judas Gun by Gordon D. Shirreffs.The film was bodybuilder Steve Reeves' final film prior to his retirement...
- 1967 Johnny Oro
- 1967 The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew (1967 film)The Taming of the Shrew is a 1967 film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare about a courtship between two strong-willed people...
- 1967 Massacre in the Black ForestMassacre in the Black ForestMassacre in the Black Forest is a 1967 historical drama film set in the German frontier in AD 9. The film centers on Hermann, a chieftan of the Cherusci tribe , who drew three Roman legions into an ambush in the Teutoburg Forest, known as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.This film was directed...
- 1966 Somewhere Beyond LoveSomewhere Beyond LoveSomewhere Beyond Love is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Giuliano Gemma - Nullo Branzi* Stefania Sandrelli - Carmela Santoro* Brizio Montinaro - Pasquale* Renato Scarpa...
- 1965 Latin LoversLatin LoversGli Amanti Latini is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Costa.-Cast:*Toni Ucci ... Augusto *Vittorio Congia ... Maurizio...
- 1965 Secret Agent Fireball
- 1965 Bullet in the FleshBullet in the FleshBullet in the Flesh or Il piombo e la carne is a 1965 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Marino Girolami.-Story:Problems develop when a lumber baron Nathaniel Master's daughter Mabel falls in love with the Indian chief of the Cherokees whose land he wants to steal.-Cast:*Rod Cameron -...
- 1965 Här kommer bärsärkarnaHär kommer bärsärkarnaHär kommer bärsärkarna is a 1965 Swedish adventure film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt.-Cast:* Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt - Glum* Dirch Passer - Garm* Åke Söderblom - Hjorvard* Nils Hallberg - Cassius...
- 1965 Veneri al soleVeneri al soleVeneri al sole is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Marino Girolami.-Cast:*Ennio Girolami ... Mario Giorgetti *Gloria Paul ... Jenny...
- 1964 Red Desert
- 1962 War Gods of BabylonWar Gods of BabylonWar Gods of Babylon is a 1962 film set in the ancient Middle East, which anachronistically portrays several figures as contemporaries who historically lived hundreds of years apart.This film was directed by Silvio Amadio.-Cast:...
- 1962 EvaEva (1962 film)Eva is a 1962 drama film directed by Joseph Losey starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi, from the novel of James Hadley Chase .-Plot summary:...
- 1961 A Difficult LifeA Difficult LifeA Difficult Life is a Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961.-Plot:...
- 1960 Space MenSpace MenSpace Men is a 1960 science fiction film starring Rik Van Nutter and directed by Antonio Margheriti. It follows an assignment by Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson aboard a space station in the 21st century...
(uncredited) - 1960 It Started in NaplesIt Started in NaplesIt Started in Naples is an American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies...
- 1955 Girls of TodayGirls of TodayGirls of Today is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Marisa Allasio.-Cast:* Marisa Allasio - Anna* Paola Quattrini - Simonetta* Lili Cerasoli - Sofia* Paolo Stoppa - Peppino Bardellotti* Eduardo Bergamo...
- 1954 Totò cerca paceTotò cerca paceTotò cerca pace is a 1954 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.-Cast:* Totò - Gennaro Piselli* Ave Ninchi - Gemma Torresi Piselli* Giovanni Nannini* Enzo Turco* Gina Amendola* Paolo Ferrari - Cousin Celestino...
External links
- Carlo Savina at IMDb
- Carlo Savina Discography at CD Universe
- Carlo Savina at Allmusic
- Carlo Savina at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...