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Rota Nino
Aitken, Robert
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Five Simple Pieces for Flute and Piano
Five Simple Pieces for Flute and Piano
Nino Rota: Cinque Pezzi Facili for Flute and Piano was written in 1972 as a collection as small, delightful miniatures that have a glimpse of famous tunes taken from his well-known soundtracks.
Marta Cencini (piano), Live performance at Wiener Konzerthaus 2003
1. La Passeggiata di Puccetino 2. Serenata 3. Pavana 4. La Chioccia 5. Soldatino
Rota Nino
Nino Rota (1911 – 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor who is known for his more than 150 film scores. Especially for the films of Fellini, Visconti, Zeffirelli and Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II in 1974.
Besides music for cinema, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto.
Additionally he wrote music for theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo. Besides, he held the Director position at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy for almost 30 years.
Born in Milan in a musical family he was renown as a child prodigy. He composed his first oratorio at the age of 11. When he turned 13 his three-act lyrical comedy "Il Principe Porcaro" after the Hans Christian Andersen received overall recognition. Initially he studied music in Milan and continued at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Encouraged by Toscanini, he moved to the United States where he studied composition with Rosario Scalero and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
After returning to Italy he took the teaching job at the Liceo Musicale in Bari and started his prolific composing career.
One of his most known students – Riccardo Muti.