Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli also Trovaioli 2 September 1917 28 February 2013 was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer andor conductor many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia allitaliana genre He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects including one segment of Boccaccio 70 Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals among them Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013 After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome 1948 Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra set with 12 violins 4 violas 4 cellos 1 flute 1 oboe 1 clarinet 1 horn harp vibraphone electric guitar bass drums and the piano played by Trovajoli himself In 195253 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers in a style extremely refined and sophisticated very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time Together with Goffredo Petrassi Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis Bitter Rice 1949 In 1951 Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna a film directed by Alberto Lattuada particularly the song El Negro Zumbón became an international success inspired by tropical rhythms is sung in playback and danced by Silvana Mangano but actually performed by Flo Sandons Since then Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors as Dino Risi Vittorio De Sica Ettore Scola and others for a total of over 300 scores Source Article Armando Trovajoli from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30