Nicola Piovani
Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer. In 1998, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Roberto Benigni's film Life Is Beautiful (1997).
After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis.
In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato and Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo. In 2008, after De André departure, Piovani wrote the music for the film Amore che vieni, amore che vai, inspired by a novel of De André himself, Un destino ridicolo.
Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film Intervista, his second of three collaborations with the famous director, the others being Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred in English) and La voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon). Years later, he composed a ballet titled Balletto Fellini.
In 2000, his Academy Award-winning score for Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) was further nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" category, losing to Randy Newman. In 2005, he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. In light of his recent work with French directors, notably Danièle Thompson, Philippe Lioret, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the French Minister of Culture gave him the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on 21 May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival.
To date, Piovani has over 130 film scores to his credit, including films such as Slap the Monster on Page One (1972), The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), Flavia the Heretic (1974), Le Orme (1975), A Leap in the Dark (1980) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), and Kaos (1984). The music for the latter is considered by many as one of the best film scores ever done. However, he is reported to believe that "Too many film scores make a composer a hack, but in the theatre music is above all craftsmanship". Accordingly, he continues to work in musical theatre, and also composes concert and chamber music.
Piovani also composed the first opera Amorosa presenza on a libretto by Aisha Cerami and Nicola Piovani, based on the novel by Vincenzo Cerami and is performed at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in January 2022.
In 2023, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.
In 2024, Piovani composed the score for Loris Lai's debut feature film, How Kids Roll.
Source: Article "Nicola Piovani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis.
In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato and Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo. In 2008, after De André departure, Piovani wrote the music for the film Amore che vieni, amore che vai, inspired by a novel of De André himself, Un destino ridicolo.
Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film Intervista, his second of three collaborations with the famous director, the others being Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred in English) and La voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon). Years later, he composed a ballet titled Balletto Fellini.
In 2000, his Academy Award-winning score for Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) was further nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" category, losing to Randy Newman. In 2005, he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. In light of his recent work with French directors, notably Danièle Thompson, Philippe Lioret, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the French Minister of Culture gave him the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on 21 May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival.
To date, Piovani has over 130 film scores to his credit, including films such as Slap the Monster on Page One (1972), The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), Flavia the Heretic (1974), Le Orme (1975), A Leap in the Dark (1980) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), and Kaos (1984). The music for the latter is considered by many as one of the best film scores ever done. However, he is reported to believe that "Too many film scores make a composer a hack, but in the theatre music is above all craftsmanship". Accordingly, he continues to work in musical theatre, and also composes concert and chamber music.
Piovani also composed the first opera Amorosa presenza on a libretto by Aisha Cerami and Nicola Piovani, based on the novel by Vincenzo Cerami and is performed at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in January 2022.
In 2023, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.
In 2024, Piovani composed the score for Loris Lai's debut feature film, How Kids Roll.
Source: Article "Nicola Piovani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Finché notte non ci separi
Accattaroma
I limoni d'inverno
My Paper Dolls
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Lord of the Ants
Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Leonora addio
I Fratelli De Filippo
Anaïs in Love
DeAndré#DeAndré - Storia di un impiegato
Fellinopolis
Il nostro Eduardo
The Best Years
Hammamet
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
The Traitor
Adrian
Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
Non è una bufala
Una festa esagerata
There's No Place Like Home
Una gita a Roma
Daydreams
Cavalli di battaglia
In arte Nino
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
The Confessions
L'amore non perdona
Hungry Hearts
L'ultimo Papa Re
Cherry on the Cake
Le Chef
La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota
Shooting VS Shooting
Boris: The Film
All at Sea
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
The Cézanne Affair
The Big Dream
Welcome
Amore che vieni, amore che vai
Odette Toulemonde
Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Avenue Montaigne
The Tiger and the Snow
L'ombra cinese
La trappola di Maigret
The Light
Sams in Gefahr
Pinocchio
Il nostro matrimonio è in crisi
The Magic of Fellini
The Slurb
The Son's Room
Viper
La seconda ombra
La carbonara
Running Free
La fame e la sete
Life Is Beautiful
The Man in Grey
Santo Stefano
The Impostor
Linda e il brigadiere
Uomo d'acqua dolce
Camere da letto
La mia generazione
Nemici d'infanzia
Bad Kid
A Month by the Lake
The Flying Dutchman
A che punto è la notte
A che punto è la notte
The Tit and the Moon
Kim Novak Is on the Phone
Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini
Per amore, solo per amore
Caro diario
Amok
Golden Balls
Living Naked
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Jamon Jamon
Utz
The Siege of Venice
Out of Life
In nome del popolo sovrano
The Mountain
Traces of an Amorous Life
Night Sun
Lenin: The Train
The Voice of the Moon
Dark Illness
Palombella Rossa
Australia
12 Directors for 12 Cities
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
L'appassionata
'o Re
Lenin... The Train
Disamistade
I cammelli
Strange Place for an Encounter
It's Happening Tomorrow
Manifesto
Intervista
The Bride Was Beautiful
Good Morning, Babylon
The Professor
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Ginger and Fred
The Mass Is Ended
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Secrets Secrets
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Kaos
The Night of the Shooting Stars
The Eyes, the Mouth
The Marquis of Grillo
The Soup
The Istambul Train
Leap Into the Void
In the Highest of Skies
The Seagull
Sun of the Hyenas
Victory March
La vita in gioco
Footprints on the Moon
Fit to Be Untied
Vermisat
Flavia the Heretic
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Morel's Invention
Slap the Monster on Page One
In the Name of the Father