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Carlo Savina

Known for: Sound

Biography: 1919-08-02

Deathday: 2002-06-23 (82 years old)

Biography

Carlo Savina (2 August 1919 - 23 June 2002) was an Italian composer and conductor who composed, arranged, and conducted music for films-and is especially ed 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 Westerns 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 Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinet for the orchestra of Italian public radio broadcaster EIAR. 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.

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Filmography

all 226

Movies 225

Director 2

TV Shows 1

Composer

Carlo Savina

Biography

Filmography

all 226

Movies 225

Director 2

TV Shows 1

Feu sur le candidat (1990)

L'Orchestre rouge (1989)

Down There in the Jungle (1988)

The Sicilian Connection (1985)

The Future Is Woman (1984)

Tiger Joe (1982)

The Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982)

Comin' at Ya! (1981)

The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic (1981)

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1979)

Obscene Desire (1978)

The Perfect Crime (1978)

Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country (1978)

Suggestionata (1978)

Caligula's Hot Nights (1977)

Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito (1977)

Dear Monsters of the Sea (1977)

Nine Guests for a Crime (1977)

Fellini's Casanova (1976)

Dear Michele (1976)

Campagnola bella (1976)

Ragazzo di borgata (1976)

Frou-frou del Tabarin (1976)

A Bull for Mounts (1976)

Intimate Relations (1975)

Savage Man Savage Beast (1975)

A Virgin in the Family (1975)

Reflections in Black (1975)

A Diary of a Murderess (1975)

La bolognese (1975)

The House of Exorcism (1975)

L'ingenua (1975)

Heat in the Suburbs (1975)

Carnality (1974)

Orders Signed in White (1974)

La profanazione (1974)

Night of the Skull (1974)

La nipote (1974)

The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)

Nobody's Children (1974)

The Castro's Abbess (1974)

The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974)

Amarcord (1973)

The Magnificent One (1973)

Racconti romani di una ex-novizia (1973)

Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973)

The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)

Fra' Tazio da Velletri (1973)

Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia (1973)

Lisa and the Devil (1973)

Heart (1973)

Ingrid on the Road (1973)

Love and Anarchy (1973)

Le favolose notti d'oriente (1973)

An Animal Called Man (1972)

Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor (1972)

La grande avventura di Scaramouche (1972)

Sentence of God (1972)

Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972)

Naked Girl Killed in the Park (1972)

Return of the Holy Ghost (1972)

Gunmen and the Holy Ghost (1972)

Two Brothers in Trinity (1972)

Creeping Death (1972)

Siege of Terror (1972)

Roma (1972)

The Godfather (1972)

1001 Nights of Pleasure (1972)

Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death (1971)

And His Name Was Holy Ghost (1971)

Eye of the Spider (1971)

This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings (1971)