Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani born 26 May 1946 is an Italian lightclassical musician theater and film score composer In 1998 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Roberto Benignis film Life Is Beautiful 1997 After high school Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967 and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André Storia di un impiegato and Non al denaro non allamore né al cielo In 2008 after De André departure Piovani wrote the music for the film Amore che vieni amore che vai inspired by a novel of De André himself Un destino ridicolo Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film Intervista his second of three collaborations with the famous director the others being Ginger e Fred Ginger and Fred in English and La voce della luna The Voice of the Moon Years later he composed a ballet titled Balletto Fellini In 2000 his Academy Awardwinning score for Life Is Beautiful La Vita è bella was further nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture Television or Other Visual Media category losing to Randy Newman In 2005 he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival In light of his recent work with French directors notably Danièle Thompson Philippe Lioret and ÉricEmmanuel Schmitt the French Minister of Culture gave him the title of Chevalier Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on 21 May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival To date Piovani has over 130 film scores to his credit including films such as Slap the Monster on Page One 1972 The Perfume of the Lady in Black 1974 Flavia the Heretic 1974 Le Orme 1975 A Leap in the Dark 1980 The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 and Kaos 1984 The music for the latter is considered by many as one of the best film scores ever done However he is reported to believe that Too many film scores make a composer a hack but in the theatre music is above all craftsmanship Accordingly he continues to work in musical theatre and also composes concert and chamber music Piovani also composed the first opera Amorosa presenza on a libretto by Aisha Cerami and Nicola Piovani based on the novel by Vincenzo Cerami and is performed at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in January 2022 In 2023 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy In 2024 Piovani composed the score for Loris Lais debut feature film How Kids Roll Source Article Nicola Piovani from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30