Carlo Savina

Carlo Savina
Carlo Savina playing guitar (1954)
Born	(1919-08-02)2 August 1919 Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
Died	23 June 2002(2002-06-23) (aged 82) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Other names	Herbert Buckman, Charles Hanger, James Munshin
Occupation	Composer
Known for	Amarcord, The Godfather, The Bear

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.^[1] His work ranged from composing music for frequent Spaghetti Westerns^[2] such as Johnny Oro to being the musical director and conductor in Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal.^[3]

In 1985 he won the David di Donatello Best Music award for the film score of Pizza Connection.

Biography

Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinettist for the orchestra of an 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.^[4]

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,^[5] and perhaps underrated, screen and television composers of the 20th century.

Selected filmography

• 1954 Toto Seeks Peace
• 1955 Girls of Today
• 1958 Herod the Great
• 1959 Head of a Tyrant
• 1959 The Moralist
• 1960 It Started in Naples
• 1960 Ferragosto in bikini
• 1961 A Difficult Life
• 1962 War Gods of Babylon
• 1962 The Fury of Achilles
• 1962 Samson Against the Sheik
• 1962 Eva
• 1962 The Rebel Gladiators
• 1962 Three Fables of Love
• 1963 Slave Queen of Babylon
• 1963 The Motorized
• 1963 Hercules Against the Mongols
• 1964 Hercules Against the Barbarians
• 1964 Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
• 1964 Terror in the Crypt
• 1965 Gli amanti latini
• 1965 Secret Agent Fireball
• 1965 Bullet in the Flesh
• 1965 Här kommer bärsärkarna
• 1965 Veneri al sole
• 1966 Mutiny at Fort Sharpe
• 1966 The Man Who Laughs
• 1966 Bob Fleming... Mission Casablanca
• 1966 Goldsnake
• 1966 Johnny Oro
• 1966 Few Dollars for Django
• 1967 Massacre in the Black Forest
• 1967 In Ghentar you die easy
• 1967 A Pact with the Devil
• 1968 The Young, the Evil and the Savage
• 1968 Death Knows No Time
• 1968 A Long Ride from Hell
• 1968 Franco, Ciccio And The Cheerful Widows
• 1968 Vengeance
• 1968 Between God, the Devil and a Winchester
• 1969 The Unnaturals
• 1969 Heads or Tails
• 1969 Malenka
• 1970 And God Said to Cain
• 1970 A Suitcase for a Corpse
• 1970 Mr. Superinvisible
• 1970 Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death
• 1971 The Last Traitor
• 1971 Nights and Loves of Don Juan
• 1971 The Feast of Satan
• 1971 Eye of the Spider
• 1971 Stress
• 1972 Thunder Over El Paso
• 1972 Jesse & Lester, Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity
• 1972 Naked Girl Killed in the Park
• 1972 1001 Nights Of Pleasure
• 1973 Ingrid on the Road
• 1973 Love and Anarchy
• 1973 Mr. Hercules Against Karate
• 1973 The Legend of Blood Castle
• 1973 Macadam Jungle
• 1974 I figli di nessuno
• 1974 La profanazione
• 1974 The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
• 1974 Orders Signed in White
• 1974 Lisa and the Devil
• 1975 The Stranger and the Gunfighter
• 1975 L'ingenua
• 1975 A Diary of a Murderess
• 1975 Reflections in Black
• 1975 Savage Man Savage Beast
• 1977 Nine Guests for a Crime
• 1977 Friendly Monsters from the Deep
• 1978 Suggestionata
• 1978 Fury
• 1978 The Perfect Crime
• 1978 Obscene Desire
• 1981 Comin' at Ya!
• 1982 Hunters of the Golden Cobra
• 1985 Pizza Connection

References

1. "Carlo Savina, Ritratto di un Autore". CAM Original Soundtracks. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
2. "Spaghetti Westerns, Vol. 3 Soundtrack CD". CD Universe. Archived from the original on 2011-12-19. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
3. Tylski, Alexandre (April–May 2003). "Cadrage: An analysis of Orchestra Rehearsal, 1979". Cadrage. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
4. Musiker, Reuben; Musiker, Naomi (1998). Ades, David (ed.). Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 240. ISBN 9780313302602.
5. "Carlo Savina Filmography". Fandango. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

External links

• Carlo Savina at IMDb
• Carlo Savina Discography at CD Universe
• Carlo Savina at AllMusic
• Carlo Savina at Discogs