Carlo Savina
Personal Info
Known for
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-08-02
Day of Death
2002-06-23 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Carlo Savina
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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Known For
Crew
(1990)
Feu sur le candidat
Original Music Composer
(1988)
(1985)
The Sicilian Connection
Original Music Composer
(1984)
The Future Is Woman
Original Music Composer
(1982)
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
Original Music Composer
(1982)
Tiger Joe
Original Music Composer
(1982)
Regina Roma
Conductor
(1981)
Comin' at Ya!
Music
(1981)
(1979)
Orchestra Rehearsal
Music Consultant, Conductor
(1978)
Obscene Desire
Original Music Composer
(1978)
Suggestionata
Music
(1978)
(1978)
The Perfect Crime
Music
(1977)
Caligula's Hot Nights
Original Music Composer
(1977)
Nine Guests for a Crime
Original Music Composer
(1977)
(1976)
Dear Michele
Conductor
(1976)
Fellini's Casanova
Conductor
(1976)
Campagnola bella
Music
(1975)
A Diary of a Murderess
Original Music Composer
(1975)
(1975)
(1975)
(1975)
L'ingenua
Original Music Composer
(1975)
La bolognese
Original Music Composer
(1975)
Intimate Relations
Original Music Composer
(1975)
Heat in the Suburbs
Original Music Composer
(1975)
Reflections in Black
Original Music Composer
(1974)
Night of the Skull
Original Music Composer
(1974)
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
Original Music Composer
(1974)
Carnality
Music
(1974)
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
Original Music Composer
(1974)
La profanazione
Music
(1974)
The Castro's Abbess
Original Music Composer
(1973)
(1973)
Heart
Music
(1973)
The Magnificent One
Conductor
(1973)
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
Original Music Composer
(1973)
Amarcord
Conductor
(1973)
Ingrid on the Road
Original Music Composer
(1973)
Love and Anarchy
Original Music Composer
(1973)
The Legend of Blood Castle
Original Music Composer
(1973)
Fra' Tazio da Velletri
Original Music Composer
(1973)
Lisa and the Devil
Original Music Composer
(1973)
Mr. Hercules Against Karate
Original Music Composer
(1972)
Trinity and Sartana Are Coming
Original Music Composer
(1972)
Sentence of God
Original Music Composer
(1972)
The Godfather
Conductor
(1972)
Gunmen and the Holy Ghost
Screenplay
(1972)
Roma
Conductor
(1972)
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Director of Photography
(1972)
Siege of Terror
Original Music Composer
(1972)
(1972)
Two Brothers in Trinity
Original Music Composer
(1972)
An Animal Called Man
Music
(1972)
Naked Girl Killed in the Park
Original Music Composer
(1971)
The Great Swindle
Original Music Composer
(1971)
(1971)
Nights and Loves of Don Juan
Original Music Composer
(1971)
The Feast of Satan
Music
(1971)
The Last Traitor
Music
(1971)
Conquest
Music
(1971)
Night of the Damned
Original Music Composer
(1971)
Eye of the Spider
Music
(1971)
(1970)
And God Said to Cain
Original Music Composer
(1970)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Conductor
(1970)
The Clowns
Conductor
(1970)
Shadow of Illusion
Original Music Composer
(1970)
Mr. Superinvisible
Original Music Composer
(1970)
Your Sweet Body to Kill
Music, Conductor
(1970)
Belle d'amore
Original Music Composer
(1970)
The Particular Love
Music
(1969)
Fangs of the Living Dead
Original Music Composer
(1969)
The Unnaturals
Music
(1969)
Heads or Tails
Original Music Composer
(1969)
The Two Kennedys
Music
(1969)
Simon Bolivar
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Caprice Italian Style
Original Music Composer
(1968)
(1968)
Vengeance
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Gun Shy Piluk
Original Music Composer
(1968)
I Love You
Original Music Composer
(1968)
A Long Ride from Hell
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Naked You Die
Original Music Composer, Additional Music, Conductor
(1968)
Death Knows No Time
Music
(1967)
The Taming of the Shrew
Conductor
(1967)
Dynamite Joe
Original Music Composer
(1967)
You Only Die Once
Original Music Composer
(1967)
Die Easy in Ghentar
Original Music Composer
(1967)
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
Original Music Composer
(1967)
(1966)
(1966)
A Few Dollars for Django
Original Music Composer
(1966)
Mutiny at Fort Sharpe
Original Music Composer
(1966)
Ringo and His Golden Pistol
Original Music Composer
(1966)
Suicide Mission to Singapore
Original Music Composer
(1966)
Delitto d'amore
Sound
(1966)
Killers Are Challenged
Original Music Composer
(1966)
Fury in Marrakesh
Original Music Composer
(1966)
The Tall Women
Music
(1965)
Two Vikings
Original Music Composer
(1965)
Latin Lovers
Original Music Composer
(1965)
Juliet of the Spirits
Conductor
(1965)
Secret Agent Fireball
Original Music Composer
(1964)
Red Desert
Conductor
(1964)
Time of Indifference
Conductor
(1964)
Seven from Thebes
Music
(1964)
Seduced and Duped
Conductor
(1964)
Crypt of the Vampire
Music
(1964)
Amore mio
Original Music Composer
(1964)
Bullet in the Flesh
Original Music Composer
(1964)
Le tardone
Original Music Composer
(1964)
These Mad, Mad Women
Original Music Composer
(1964)
Cleopazza
Sound
(1964)
Venus in the Sun
Music
(1964)
(1963)
I Am Semiramis
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Hercules Against the Mongols
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Siamo tutti pomicioni
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Ursus in the Land of Fire
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Crazy Sea
Conductor
(1963)
(1963)
Dal sabato al lunedì
Conductor
(1963)
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Conductor
(1963)
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Le motorizzate
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Zorro in the Court of Spain
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Saladin the Victorious
Conductor
(1963)
La vita provvisoria
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Giacobbe ed Esau
Music
(1963)
The Tyrant of Castile
Original Music Composer
(1962)
The Fury of Achilles
Original Music Composer
(1962)
Twist, lolite e vitelloni
Original Music Composer
(1962)
Disorder
Conductor
(1962)
Gli italiani e le donne
Original Music Composer
(1962)
War Gods of Babylon
Original Music Composer
(1962)
Carmen di Trastevere
Conductor
(1962)
Samson Against the Sheik
Original Music Composer
(1962)
The Rebel Gladiators
Original Music Composer
(1962)
Eva
Music Director
(1962)
I Love, You Love
Original Music Composer
(1961)
A Difficult Life
Original Music Composer
(1961)
Scandali al mare
Original Music Composer
(1961)
Sword of the Conqueror
Conductor
(1961)
The Policeman on Horseback
Conductor
(1961)
Dying as Hierarchs
Original Music Composer
(1961)
The Corsican Brothers
Conductor
(1961)
Le magnifiche 7
Original Music Composer
(1961)
Seduction Of The South
Conductor
(1961)
Goliath and the Vampires
Conductor
(1961)
(1961)
Bellezze sulla spiaggia
Original Music Composer
(1961)
(1961)
Black City
Music
(1960)
Caccia al marito
Original Music Composer
(1960)
Ferragosto in Bikini
Original Music Composer
(1960)
The Cossacks
Conductor
(1960)
Messalina
Conductor
(1960)
I baccanali di Tiberio
Original Music Composer
(1960)
It Started in Naples
Original Music Composer
(1960)
Che femmina!! E... che dollari!
Original Music Composer
(1959)
The Moralist
Original Music Composer
(1959)
Herod the Great
Original Music Composer
(1959)
The Head of a Tyrant
Original Music Composer
(1959)
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Conductor
(1959)
Hercules Unchained
Conductor
(1959)
The Magistrate
Conductor
(1959)
European Nights
Original Music Composer
(1958)
You, Your Mother, and Me
Original Music Composer
(1958)
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
Original Music Composer
(1958)
Hercules
Conductor
(1958)
The Naked Maja
Conductor
(1958)
Toto and Marcellino
Conductor
(1958)
The Mine
Conductor
(1957)
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl
Conductor
(1957)
Te stò aspettanno
Music
(1957)
Marisa
Conductor
(1957)
Goddess Of Love
Conductor
(1957)
Lazzarella
Conductor
(1956)
Presentimento
Original Music Composer
(1956)
The Awakening
Conductor
(1956)
The Violent Patriot
Conductor
(1956)
Nero's Mistress
Conductor
(1956)
Noi siamo le colonne
Conductor
(1956)
What a Woman!
Conductor
(1955)
Scandal in Sorrento
Conductor
(1955)
Girls of Today
Conductor
(1955)
The Bachelor
Conductor
(1955)
A Hero of Our Times
Conductor
(1955)
Il coraggio
Conductor, Original Music Composer
(1954)
Totò Seeks Peace
Conductor, Original Music Composer
(1951)
Mamma mia, che impressione!
Conductor
(1948)
Che tempi!
Conductor