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GRAMMY-winning Italian composer Riz Ortolani died Jan. 23 following complications from surgery. He was 87. Ortolani was considered one of Italy's busiest film composers for nearly half a century and his worked spanned genres including spaghetti Westerns, thrillers and erotica.
Riz Ortolani (1926-2014) was an Italian film composer known for his versatile and prolific contributions to the world of cinema. His work spanned various gen...
A life of music. Strongly artistic, multifaceted, innovative, can best describe Riz Ortolani’s personality, composer and orchestra director with a production background that spans from the cinema to the theatre, from classical music to television programs.
Jan 24, 2014 · ROME – Italian soundtrack composer Riz Ortolani, who won a Grammy for his “Mondo Cane” theme “More,” and whose wide range of music for movies was featured in three Quentin Tarantino ...
That incredible song “More” form 1962, perhaps the most performed in the history of cinematographic music and that Grammy Award of 1964, with 24 years going by before another Italian won the award; now a milestone to highlight the start of a bright career road for the composer, travelled by the Pesara born maestro Riz Ortolani.
Jan 23, 2014 · Biography. Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film composer. Ortolani scored over 300 films working mostly within the Italian genres of Mondo, Giallo, and the Spaghetti Western. Ortolani also scored many Hollywood films and has had some of his compositions reused in films like Drive and Django Unchained.
Jan 23, 2014 · Riz Ortolani has passed away at age 87. The Italian composer scored around 200 films both in home country, as well as the United States, England and Germany. He received two Academy Awards for the original songs More from 1962’s Mondo cane and Till Love Touches Your Life from the 1970 western Madron.
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