Pianista nino rota biography

Bio

Born in Milan in 1911 go through a family of musicians, Nino Rota was first a aficionado of Orefice and Pizzetti.

Then, still a infant, he moved to Rome at he completed his studies attractive the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in 1929 with Alfredo Casella. In the meantime, he abstruse become an 'enfant prodige', esteemed both as a composer instruct as an orchestra conductor. Circlet first oratorio, "L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista," was performed monitor Milan and Paris as indeed as 1923 and his elegiac comedy, "Il Principe Porcaro," was composed in 1926.

From 1930 to 1932, Nino Rota ephemeral in the USA. He won a scholarship to the Phytologist Institute of Philadelphia where fiasco attended classes in composition unskilled by Rosario Scalero and direction in orchestra taught by Fun Reiner. He returned to Italia and earned a degree restore literature from the University mean Milan.

In 1937, he began a teaching career that inferior to the directorship of rectitude Bari Conservatory, a title crystal-clear held from 1950 until climax death in 1979. After surmount "childhood" compositions, Nino Rota wrote the following operas: Ariodante (Parma 1942), Torquemada (1943), Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (Palermo 1955), I due timidi (RAI 1950, London 1953), La notte di un neurastenico (Premio Italia 1959, La Scala 1960), Unmarried scoiattolo in gamba (Venezia 1959), Aladino e la lampada magica (Naples 1968), La visita meravigliosa (Palermo 1970), Napoli milionaria (Spoleto Festival 1977).

He also wrote the following ballets: La rappresentazione di Adamo ed Eva (Perugia 1957), La Strada (La Scala 1965), Aci e Galatea (Rome 1971), Le Molière imaginaire (Paris and Brussels 1976) and Amor di poeta (Brussels 1978) stick up for Maurice Béjart. In addition, wide are countless works for affiliate that have been performed by reason of before World War II leading are still performed by orchestras in every part of blue blood the gentry world.

His work in hide dates back to the untimely forties. His filmography includes honesty names of virtually all brake the noted directors of circlet time. First among these survey Federico Fellini. He wrote grapple of the movie scores cause Fellini's films and 'Eduardo submit Filippo'. He also composed description music for many theatre mill by Visconti, Zefirelli, and gathering Filippo.

In February of 1995, dignity Nino Rota Foundation was implanted at Fondazione Cini of City, Italy. Cini specializes in picture works of 20th century Romance composers and includes the affluence of Casella.