Biography
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.
Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinet for the orchestra of 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.
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Production Credits
Carlo Savina has 183 production credits.
Sound
Credited for Conductor in 50 shows -
Parasol Henbe,
Mamma mia, che impressione!,
Scandal in Sorrento,
Girls of Today,
The Bachelor,
What a Woman!,
Nero's Mistress,
Giovanni dalle bande nere,
Marisa la civetta,
Goddess Of Love,
Sandra, a kis fruska,
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl,
The Mine,
Hercules,
Toto and Marcellino,
Hercules Unchained,
The Magistrate,
Ferdinand I King of Naples,
Messalina,
The Policeman on Horseback,
Sword of the Conqueror,
Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World,
Seduction Of The South,
Disorder,
Carmen di Trastevere,
Saladin the Victorious,
Crazy Sea,
Red Desert,
Time of Indifference,
Sedotti e bidonati,
Gli amanti latini,
Juliet of the Spirits,
The Taming of the Shrew,
The Young, the Evil and the Savage,
The Clowns,
Your Sweet Body to Kill,
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,
The Extravagant Muchabee,
Roma,
Amarcord,
Dear Michele,
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic,
Chocky,
Out on a Limb,
Star Cops,
Stars 90,
Winter Sonata,
Vegas,
First Love Again and
Story of Cool.
Credited for Original Music Composer in 85 shows -
Presentimento,
You, Your Mother, and Me,
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!,
Herod the Great,
The Moralist,
European Nights,
I baccanali di Tiberio,
It Started in Naples,
Caccia al marito,
Scandali al mare,
Bellezze sulla spiaggia,
Le magnifiche 7,
Gerarchi si muore,
Samson Against the Sheik,
Twist lolite e vitelloni,
The Fury of Achilles,
The Rebel Gladiators,
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella,
I Am Semiramis,
Zorro in the Court of Spain,
Le motorizzate,
Siamo tutti pomicioni,
Ursus in the Land of Fire,
Hercules Against the Mongols,
Le tardone,
Amore mio,
Queste pazze, pazze donne,
Bullet in the Flesh,
Two Vikings,
Secret Agent Fireball,
Gli amanti latini,
Per un dollaro di gloria,
Killers Are Challenged,
Fury in Marrakesh,
Goldsnake: Anonima Killers,
Ringo and His Golden Pistol,
A Few Dollars for Django,
Si muore solo una volta,
Die Easy in Ghentar,
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas,
The Young, the Evil and the Savage,
Piluk, the Timid One,
A Long Ride from Hell,
Caprice Italian Style,
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows,
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester,
I Love You,
Heads or Tails,
Fangs of the Living Dead,
Simón Bolívar,
And God Said to Cain,
Mr. Superinvisible,
Shadow of Illusion,
Belle d'amore,
The Great Swindle,
Nights and Loves of Don Juan,
Night of the Damned,
Siege of Terror,
Naked Girl Killed in the Park,
Trinity and Sartana Are Coming,
Sentence of God,
Ingrid on the Road,
Fra' Tazio da Velletri,
The Legend of Blood Castle,
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia,
The Stranger and the Gunfighter,
The Castro's Abbess,
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats,
Heat in the Suburbs,
L'ingenua,
La bolognese,
A Diary of a Murderess,
Intimate Relations,
Nine Guests for a Crime,
Caligula's Hot Nights,
Obscene Desire,
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra,
Tiger Joe,
The Sicilian Connection,
Ed's Nite In,
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts,
Crossbones,
Amagi Brilliant Park,
First Love Again and
Story of Cool.
Credited for Music in 40 shows -
Te stò aspettanno,
The Head of a Tyrant,
Black City,
Revenge of the Black Knight,
Crypt of the Vampire,
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators,
Veneri al sole,
Seven from Thebes,
In the Shadow of the Eagles,
Death Knows No Time,
The Two Magnificent Fresconi,
The Unnaturals,
The Two Kennedys,
Quell'amore particolare,
Your Sweet Body to Kill,
The Last Traitor,
Feast of Satan,
School of Erotic Enjoyment,
Conquest,
Eye of the Spider,
Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death,
House of 1000 Pleasures,
An Animal Called Man,
Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia,
La profanazione,
Carnality,
The House of Exorcism,
Reflections in Black,
A Virgin in the Family,
Savage Man Savage Beast,
La campagnola bella,
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito,
Suggestionata,
The Perfect Crime,
Comin' at Ya!,
Down There in the Jungle,
Get the Picture,
The Adventures of Kotetsu,
The Orphan Killer and
The Peripheral.
Credited for Music Director in 1 show -
Eva.
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