Piero Piccioni
Piero Piccioni (full name: Gian Piero Piccioni ; born December 6, 1921 in Turin , † July 23, 2004 in Rome ) was an Italian film composer and lawyer.
Life
Piccioni, who was self-taught , began his musical career in 1938 as a pianist and played in a jazz orchestra, the 013 Big Band . After the end of Italian fascism in 1944, he formed his own band, with which he became popular in Rome. He also played with Oscar De Meyo.
From 1952 he wrote his first film scores (for works by Luigi Polidoro and Gianni Franciolini) through the mediation of Michelangelo Antonioni . He made negative headlines in April 1953 as a suspect in the death of Wilma Montesi , a model. The friendship with actress Alida Valli helped to survive the affair; the career of his father, the politician Attilio Piccioni , was badly damaged.
As a lawyer, he had contact with the film industry, also through securing film rights, and thus began to work as a composer for the screen from 1959; His work on films with Alberto Sordi , for whom he musically illustrated dozens of films, is outstanding . In his four-decade career, Piccioni wrote for over 170 films by Francesco Rosi , Mario Monicelli , Alberto Lattuada , Luigi Comencini , Luchino Visconti , Antonio Pietrangeli , Bernardo Bertolucci , Roberto Rossellini , Vittorio De Sica , Tinto Brass , Radley Metzger , or Dino Risi Lina Wertmüller .
In the 1950s he used the pseudonym Piero Morgan .
Awards
- 1963: Nastro d'Argento (for Who shot Salvatore G.? )
- 1975: David di Donatello (for being carried away by an unusual fate in the azure sea in August )
- 1975: Anna Magnani Award
- 1979: Vittorio De Sica Award
- 1991: Prix International Lumière
Film music (selection)
- 1959: The devil is loose on St. Pauli (I magliari)
- 1960: The Hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo)
- 1960: Bel Antonio (Il bell'Antonio)
- 1961: Romulus and Remus (Romolo e Remo)
- 1961: who shot Salvatore G.? (Salvatore Giuliano)
- 1962: Black Soul ( Anima nera )
- 1962: La commare secca
- 1963: Amore in Stockholm (Il diavolo)
- 1963: Hands over the city (Le mani sulla città)
- 1964: Minnesota Clay (Minnesota Clay)
- 1965: I knew her well (Io la conoscevo bene)
- 1965: chase the fox! (Caccia alla volpe)
- 1965: They called him gringo
- 1965: The tenth sacrifice (La decima vittima)
- 1967: Fedra West
- 1967: Beautiful Isabella (C'era una volta ...)
- 1967: Witches of Today
- 1968: No roses for OSS 117 ( Pas de roses pour OSS 117 )
- 1968: Django does not speak the Lord's Prayer (Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco)
- 1968: Sartana - Pray for your death (… Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte)
- 1968: Bora Bora
- 1970: Battalion of the Lost (Uomini contro)
- 1970: The Hellhounds (La spina dorsale del diavolo)
- 1971: In nome del padre, del figlio e della Colt
- 1971: The Light at the Edge of the World (The Light at the Edge of the World)
- 1972: Una colt in mano al diavolo
- 1972: Il giustiziere di Dio
- 1972: Judas… ¡toma tus monedas!
- 1973: Pay and Die (Sei bounty killers per una strage)
- 1975: Lucky Luciano (Lucky Luciano)
- 1976: Power and its price (Cadaveri eccellenti)
- 1979: Christ only came to Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
- 1985: Quo vadis? (Quo vadis?)
- 1987: Chronicle of an Announced Death (Cronaca di una morte annunciata)
- 1987: A child named Jesus (Un bambino di nome Gesú)
Web links and sources
- Piero Piccioni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary in the Guardian
- Page dedicated to the composer
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Piccioni, Piero |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgan, Piero Morgan; Piccioni, Gian Piero |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film composer and lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2004 |
Place of death | Rome |