Carlo Savina
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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Movies (204)
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994 · Music
Feu sur le candidat
1990 · Original Music Composer
Tides of War
1990 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Down There in the Jungle
1988 · Music
Pizza Connection
1985 · Original Music Composer
The Future Is Woman
1984 · Original Music Composer
Tiger Joe
1982 · Original Music Composer
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982 · Original Music Composer
Regina Roma
1982 · Conductor
Comin' at Ya!
1981 · Music
Tess
1979 · Conductor
Orchestra Rehearsal
1979 · Conductor, Music Consultant
Obscene Desire
1978 · Original Music Composer
The Perfect Crime
1978 · Original Music Composer
Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
1978 · Original Music Composer
Suggestionata
1978 · Music
Caligula's Hot Nights
1977 · Original Music Composer
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
1977 · Music
Nine Guests for a Crime
1977 · Original Music Composer
Fellini's Casanova
1976 · Conductor
Dear Michele
1976 · Conductor
Campagnola bella
1976 · Music
Ragazzo di borgata
1976 · Music
Intimate Relations
1975 · Original Music Composer
Savage Man Savage Beast
1975 · Music
A Virgin in the Family
1975 · Music
Reflections in Black
1975 · Original Music Composer
A Diary of a Murderess
1975 · Original Music Composer
La bolognese
1975 · Original Music Composer
The House of Exorcism
1975 · Music
L'ingenua
1975 · Original Music Composer
Heat in the Suburbs
1975 · Original Music Composer
Carnality
1974 · Music
Lisa and the Devil
1974 · Original Music Composer
La profanazione
1974 · Music
Night of the Skull
1974 · Original Music Composer
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
1974 · Original Music Composer
The Castro's Abbess
1974 · Original Music Composer
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
1974 · Original Music Composer
Manone il ladrone
1974 · Music
Amarcord
1973 · Conductor
The Magnificent One
1973 · Conductor
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
1973 · Original Music Composer
Mr. Hercules Against Karate
1973 · Original Music Composer
The Legend of Blood Castle
1973 · Original Music Composer
Fra' Tazio da Velletri
1973 · Original Music Composer
Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia
1973 · Music
Heart
1973 · Music
Ingrid on the Road
1973 · Original Music Composer
Love and Anarchy
1973 · Original Music Composer
An Animal Called Man
1972 · Music
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
1972 · Director of Photography
Sentence of God
1972 · Original Music Composer
Trinity and Sartana Are Coming
1972 · Original Music Composer
Naked Girl Killed in the Park
1972 · Original Music Composer
Gunmen and the Holy Ghost
1972 · Screenplay
Two Brothers in Trinity
1972 · Original Music Composer
Siege of Terror
1972 · Original Music Composer
Roma
1972 · Conductor
The Godfather
1972 · Conductor
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1972 · Music
Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death
1971 · Music
And His Name Was Holy Ghost
1971 · Compositor
Eye of the Spider
1971 · Music
The Night of the Damned
1971 · Original Music Composer
Conquest
1971 · Music
School of Erotic Enjoyment
1971 · Music
The Feast of Satan
1971 · Music
The Last Traitor
1971 · Music
Nights and Loves of Don Juan
1971 · Original Music Composer
The Great Swindle
1971 · Original Music Composer
Stress
1971 · Music
Belle d'amore
1970 · Original Music Composer
The Clowns
1970 · Conductor
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 · Conductor
Shadow of Illusion
1970 · Original Music Composer
Mr. Superinvisible
1970 · Original Music Composer
Your Sweet Body to Kill
1970 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Particular Love
1970 · Music
And God Said to Cain
1970 · Original Music Composer
The Two Kennedys
1969 · Music
Simón Bolívar
1969 · Original Music Composer
A Pest to Everyone
1969 · Music
Fangs of the Living Dead
1969 · Original Music Composer
Heads or Tails
1969 · Original Music Composer
The Unnaturals
1969 · Music
The Two Magnificent Fresconi
1968 · Music
I Love You
1968 · Original Music Composer
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
1968 · Original Music Composer
Vengeance
1968 · Original Music Composer
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
1968 · Original Music Composer
Caprice Italian Style
1968 · Original Music Composer
A Long Ride from Hell
1968 · Original Music Composer
Gun Shy Piluk
1968 · Original Music Composer
Death Knows No Time
1968 · Music
Naked You Die
1968 · Conductor, Original Music Composer, Additional Music
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
1967 · Original Music Composer
Die Easy in Ghentar
1967 · Original Music Composer
You Only Die Once
1967 · Original Music Composer
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Conductor
Dynamite Joe
1967 · Original Music Composer
Vietnam guerra senza fronte
1967 · Sound
The Tall Women
1966 · Music
A Few Dollars for Django
1966 · Original Music Composer
Ringo and His Golden Pistol
1966 · Original Music Composer
Suicide Mission to Singapore
1966 · Original Music Composer
Fury in Marrakesh
1966 · Original Music Composer
Delitto d'amore
1966 · Sound, Music
Killers Are Challenged
1966 · Original Music Composer
In the Shadow of the Eagles
1966 · Music
Mutiny at Fort Sharpe
1966 · Original Music Composer
Juliet of the Spirits
1965 · Conductor
Latin Lovers
1965 · Original Music Composer
Secret Agent Fireball
1965 · Original Music Composer
Two Vikings
1965 · Original Music Composer
Seven from Thebes
1964 · Music
Bullet in the Flesh
1964 · Original Music Composer
Venus in the Sun
1964 · Music
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
1964 · Music
Seduced and Duped
1964 · Conductor
Time of Indifference
1964 · Conductor
Red Desert
1964 · Conductor
Crypt of the Vampire
1964 · Music
These Mad, Mad Women
1964 · Original Music Composer
Amore mio
1964 · Original Music Composer
Le tardone
1964 · Original Music Composer
Cleopazza
1964 · Sound
The Tyrant of Castile
1963 · Original Music Composer
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
1963 · Conductor
Hercules Against the Mongols
1963 · Original Music Composer
Ursus in the Land of Fire
1963 · Original Music Composer
Crazy Sea
1963 · Conductor
Siamo tutti pomicioni
1963 · Original Music Composer
Le motorizzate
1963 · Original Music Composer
Zorro in the Court of Spain
1963 · Original Music Composer
I Am Semiramis
1963 · Original Music Composer
Dal sabato al lunedì
1963 · Conductor
Saladin
1963 · Conductor
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
1963 · Original Music Composer
La vita provvisoria
1963 · Original Music Composer
Revenge of the Black Knight
1963 · Music
Giacobbe ed Esau
1963 · Music
Gli italiani e le donne
1962 · Original Music Composer
War Gods of Babylon
1962 · Original Music Composer
Carmen di Trastevere
1962 · Conductor
The Rebel Gladiators
1962 · Original Music Composer
Eva
1962 · Music Director
The Fury of Achilles
1962 · Original Music Composer
Twist, lolite e vitelloni
1962 · Original Music Composer
Samson Against the Sheik
1962 · Original Music Composer
Disorder
1962 · Conductor
I Love, You Love
1962 · Original Music Composer
Dying as Hierarchs
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Corsican Brothers
1961 · Conductor
A Difficult Life
1961 · Original Music Composer
Seduction Of The South
1961 · Conductor
Le magnifiche 7
1961 · Original Music Composer
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961 · Conductor
Black City
1961 · Music
Sword of the Conqueror
1961 · Conductor
Goliath and the Vampires
1961 · Conductor
Bellezze sulla spiaggia
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Policeman on Horseback
1961 · Conductor
Scandali al mare
1961 · Original Music Composer
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo
1961 · Music
Ferragosto in Bikini
1960 · Original Music Composer
Che femmina!! E... che dollari!
1960 · Original Music Composer
Caccia al marito
1960 · Original Music Composer
It Started in Naples
1960 · Original Music Composer
Messalina
1960 · Conductor
The Cossacks
1960 · Conductor
I baccanali di Tiberio
1960 · Original Music Composer
Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959 · Conductor
The Magistrate
1959 · Conductor
The Moralist
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Head of a Tyrant
1959 · Original Music Composer
European Nights
1959 · Original Music Composer
Hercules Unchained
1959 · Conductor
Herod the Great
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Naked Maja
1958 · Conductor
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
1958 · Original Music Composer
Toto and Marcellino
1958 · Conductor
You, Your Mother, and Me
1958 · Original Music Composer
Hercules
1958 · Conductor
The Mine
1958 · Conductor
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl
1957 · Conductor
Goddess Of Love
1957 · Conductor
Lazzarella
1957 · Conductor
Te stò aspettanno
1957 · Music
Marisa
1957 · Conductor
Noi siamo le colonne
1956 · Conductor
Presentimento
1956 · Original Music Composer
The Awakening
1956 · Conductor
The Violent Patriot
1956 · Conductor
Nero's Mistress
1956 · Conductor
What a Woman!
1956 · Conductor
The Bachelor
1955 · Conductor
Girls of Today
1955 · Conductor
Il coraggio
1955 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Scandal in Sorrento
1955 · Conductor
A Hero of Our Times
1955 · Conductor
Totò Seeks Peace
1954 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Mamma mia, che impressione!
1951 · Conductor
Che tempi!
1948 · Conductor
