Carlo Savina

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 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 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''.

Biography

Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinettist for the orchestra of an 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.

Selected filmography

* 1954 ''Toto Seeks Peace''
* 1955 ''Girls of Today''
* 1958 ''Herod the Great''
* 1959 ''Head of a Tyrant''
* 1960 ''It Started in Naples''
* 1960 '' Ferragosto in bikini''
* 1961 ''A Difficult Life''
* 1962 ''War Gods of Babylon''
* 1962 ''The Fury of Achilles''
* 1962 ''Samson Against the Sheik''
* 1962 ''Eva''
* 1962 ''The Rebel Gladiators''
* 1963 ''Slave Queen of Babylon''
* 1963 ''The Motorized''
* 1963 ''Hercules Against the Mongols''
* 1964 ''Hercules Against the Barbarians''
* 1964 ''Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators''
* 1964 ''Terror in the Crypt''
* 1965 '' Gli amanti latini''
* 1965 ''Secret Agent Fireball''
* 1965 ''Bullet in the Flesh''
* 1965 '' Här kommer bärsärkarna''
* 1965 ''Veneri al sole''
* 1966 ''Mutiny at Fort Sharpe''
* 1966 ''The Man Who Laughs''
* 1966 '' Bob Fleming... Mission Casablanca''
* 1966 ''Goldsnake''
* 1966 ''Johnny Oro''
* 1966 '' Few Dollars for Django''
* 1967 '' Massacre in the Black Forest''
* 1967 ''A Pact with the Devil''
* 1968 ''The Young, the Evil and the Savage''
* 1968 ''A Long Ride from Hell''
* 1968 '' Franco, Ciccio And The Cheerful Widows''
* 1968 '' Vengeance''
* 1968 '' Between God, the Devil and a Winchester''
* 1969 ''The Unnaturals''
* 1969 ''Heads or Tails''
* 1969 ''Malenka''
* 1970 ''And God Said to Cain''
* 1970 ''A Suitcase for a Corpse''
* 1970 '' Mr. Superinvisible''
* 1970 ''Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death''
* 1971 '' Nights And Loves Of Don Juan''
* 1971 ''The Last Traitor''
* 1971 ''The Feast of Satan''
* 1971 '' Eye of the Spider''
* 1971 '' Stress (1971 film)''
* 1972 ''Naked Girl Killed in the Park''
* 1972 ''1001 Nights Of Pleasure''
* 1973 ''Love and Anarchy''
* 1973 ''Mr. Hercules Against Karate''
* 1973 '' The Legend of Blood Castle''
* 1973 '' Macadam Jungle''
* 1973 '' Amarcord''
* 1974 '' I figli di nessuno''
* 1974 ''The Killer Reserved Nine Seats''
* 1974 ''Lisa and the Devil''
* 1974 '' The Stranger and the Gunfighter''
* 1975 ''L'ingenua''
* 1975 '' A Diary of a Murderess''
* 1975 ''Reflections in Black''
* 1975 '' Savage Man Savage Beast''
* 1977 ''Nine Guests for a Crime''
* 1978 '' Suggestionata''
* 1978 '' Fury''
* 1978 '' The Perfect Crime''
* 1978 ''Obscene Desire''
* 1981 '' Comin' at Ya!''
* 1982 ''Hunters of the Golden Cobra''
* 1985 '' Pizza Connection''

References

External links

*

Carlo Savina Discography at CD Universe

Carlo Savina
at AllMusic

Carlo Savina
at Discogs

{{DEFAULTSORT:Savina, Carlo
Musicians from Turin
Italian film score composers
Italian male film score composers
Italian male conductors (music)
1919 births
2002 deaths
Spaghetti Western composers
David di Donatello winners
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians