Piero Piccioni

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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

Film music (selection)

Web links and sources

Commons : Piero Piccioni  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
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