Piero Piccioni
Born: 1921-12-06 in Torino, Italy
Died: 2004-07-23
Known For: Sound
Biography
Piero Piccioni (December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer. A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He was influenced in the use of jazz by 20th century classical composers and American films. Piero Piccioni came into contact with the movie world in Rome during the fifties, when he was a practicing lawyer securing movie rights for Italian producers such as Titanus and De Laurentiis. Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Lina Wertmuller, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others. His film scores include Il bell'Antonio, Contempt, The 10th Victim, More Than a Miracle, The Deserter, The Light at the Edge of the World, Puppet on a Chain, Lucky Luciano, Camille 2000, The Nun and the Devil, Swept Away, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Fighting Back, and many Alberto Sordi movies. He is credited with over 300 soundtracks and compositions for radio, television, ballets and orchestra. Piccioni won many prestigious prizes including the David di Donatello Award for the movie Swept Away (1975), Nastro d’argento Award for the movie Salvatore Giuliano by Francesco Rosi (1963), Prix International Lumière 1991, Anna Magnani Award 1975 and Vittorio De Sica Award 1979.
Filmography
2025
- Intermission ... (Songs)
1998
- Incontri proibiti ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- Nestore, l'ultima corsa ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini) ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Assolto per aver commesso il fatto ... (Original Music Composer)
- Neapolitan Diary ... (Original Music Composer)
1990
- The Miser ... (Original Music Composer)
- Comprarsi la vita ... (Original Music Composer)
1989
- 12 Directors for 12 Cities ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus ... (Music)
- A Child Called Jesus ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Taxi Driver in New York ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- Quo Vadis? ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Am an ESP ... (Original Music Composer)
1984
- All for the Moral Majority! ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Il tassinaro ... (Original Music Composer)
- Islam: Faith and Nations ... (Music)
1982
- Fighting Back ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Original Trap ... (Music)
- I Know That You Know That I Know ... (Original Music Composer)
- Journey with Papa ... (Original Music Composer)
1981
- Three Brothers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Don Luigi Sturzo ... (Music)
- Pierino, the SAUB Doctor ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- The Precarious Bank Teller ... (Original Music Composer)
- Catherine and I ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- The Swap ... (Music)
- Christ Stopped at Eboli ... (Conductor)
- Hypochondriac ... (Original Music Composer)
- Riavanti… Marsch! ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- The Witness ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where Are You Going on Holiday? ... (Original Music Composer)
- Professor Kranz german in Germany ... (Original Music Composer)
1977
- This Is the Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Crazy Desires of a Murderer ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Strange Occasion ... (Original Music Composer)
- Heart of a Dog ... (Original Music Composer)
- Illustrious Corpses ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Common Sense of Modesty ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chi dice donna, dice donna ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- Fratello mare ... (Original Music Composer)
- L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio ... (Original Music Composer)
1974
- Appassionata ... (Original Music Composer)
- Swept Away ... (Original Music Composer)
- Anna Karenina ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Kiss ... (Music)
- Kidnap ... (Original Music Composer)
- All Screwed Up ... (Original Music Composer)
- While There's War There's Hope ... (Original Music Composer)
- God Under the Skin ... (Music)
1973
- The Nun and the Devil ... (Music)
- Story of a Cloistered Nun ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stardust ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lucky Luciano ... (Original Music Composer)
- Colt in the Hand of the Devil ... (Original Music Composer)
- Six Bounty Killers for a Massacre ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lonely Woman ... (Music)
- The Executioner of God ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Way of Being a Woman ... (Music)
- My Brother Anastasia ... (Music)
- L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria ... (Original Music Composer)
1972
- the famous escapes ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Monk ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mattei Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Seduction of Mimi ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Scopone Game ... (Original Music Composer)
- Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return ... (Music)
- Seven Murders for Scotland Yard ... (Music)
- Night of the Scorpion ... (Music)
1971
- The Light at the Edge of the World ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Girl in Australia ... (Original Music Composer)
- Two Males for Alexa ... (Music)
- Devil's Ransom ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Masked Thief ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stress ... (Production Secretary)
- Marta ... (Original Music Composer)
- In the Eye of the Hurricane ... (Original Music Composer)
- First Surrender ... (Original Music Composer)
- L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- Red Hot Shot ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Couples ... (Original Music Composer)
- Puppet on a Chain ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Deserter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Let's Have a Riot ... (Original Music Composer)
- Many Wars Ago ... (Original Music Composer)
- Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! ... (Music)
- So Long Gulliver ... (Music)
- L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia ... (Music Director)
1969
- Medicine Italian Style ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Brothers Karamazov ... (Original Music Composer)
- Check to the Queen ... (Music)
- Playgirl 70 ... (Music)
- The Others ... (Music)
- Camille 2000 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Love Me, Love My Wife ... (Original Music Composer)
- Help Me, My Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Temptation ... (Original Music Composer)
- Oh, Grandmother's Dead ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Ten Wonders of Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Youth March ... (Original Music Composer)
- Naked England ... (Music)
1968
- If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death ... (Original Music Composer)
- Caprice Italian Style ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bora Bora ... (Music)
- I Do Not Forgive... I Kill! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Be Sick… It's Free ... (Original Music Composer)
- OSS 117 Murder for Sale ... (Music)
- Kenner ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gatling Gun ... (Original Music Composer)
- La moglie giapponese ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Young Tigers ... (Original Music Composer)
1967
- The Witches ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Stranger ... (Original Music Composer)
- More Than a Miracle ... (Original Music Composer)
- Every Man Is My Enemy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Matchless ... (Original Music Composer)
- An Italian in America ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Married You for Fun ... (Original Music Composer)
1966
- After the Fox ... (Original Music Composer)
- Smoke Over London ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Husbands ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? ... (Original Music Composer)
- M.M.M. 83 ... (Original Music Composer)
1965
- I Knew Her Well ... (Original Music Composer)
- The 10th Victim ... (Conductor)
- The Three Faces ... (Music)
- Once Upon a Tractor ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Captain's Daughter ... (Music)
- La Fuga ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Moment of Truth ... (Original Music Composer)
- From the Orient with Fury ... (Original Music Composer)
- Il provino ... (Music)
- Rope Around the Neck ... (Original Music Composer)
1964
- The Demon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Minnesota Clay ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Flying Saucer ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three Nights of Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three for a Robbery ... (Original Music Composer)
- Woman Is a Wonderful Thing ... (Original Music Composer)
- It's a Hard Life ... (Original Music Composer)
1963
- Who Works Is Lost ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Boom ... (Original Music Composer)
- To Bed or Not to Bed ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Shortest Day ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hands Over the City ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Terrorist ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Attic ... (Music)
- The Girl from Parma ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Sentimental Attempt ... (Original Music Composer)
1962
- Roaring Years ... (Conductor)
- Careless ... (Original Music Composer)
- Salvatore Giuliano ... (Original Music Composer)
- Conquered City ... (Music)
- Mafioso ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eruption ... (Original Music Composer)
- Totò diabolicus ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Slave ... (Original Music Composer)
- Violent Life ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lo smemorato di Collegno ... (Conductor)
- Dark Soul ... (Original Music Composer)
- La Commare Secca ... (Original Music Composer)
1961
- Romulus and Remus ... (Original Music Composer)
- Unexpected ... (Music)
- The Assassin ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lovemakers ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Two Marshals ... (Original Music Composer)
- Youth at Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Destination Fury ... (Original Music Composer)
- World by Night No. 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
1960
- Il bell'Antonio ... (Original Music Composer)
- Adua and Her Friends ... (Original Music Composer)
- From a Roman Balcony ... (Original Music Composer)
- Run with the Devil ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Hunchback ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sweet Deceptions ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Employee ... (Original Music Composer)
- World by Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Le svedesi ... (Original Music Composer)
1959
- The Big Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- I ragazzi dei Parioli ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Overtaxed ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Swindlers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Vacations in Majorca ... (Original Music Composer)
- Adventure in Capri ... (Original Music Composer)
1958
- Love on the Riviera ... (Original Music Composer)
- March's Child ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tempest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Angel in a Taxi ... (Original Music Composer)
1957
- Guendalina ... (Original Music Composer)
- Poor Girl, Pretty Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Woman Who Came from the Sea ... (Original Music Composer)
1955
- Yalis, la vergine del Roncador ... (Original Music Composer)
1954
- The Boarder ... (Original Music Composer)
1953
- The World Condemns Them ... (Original Music Composer)