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. His work ranged from composing music for frequent Spaghetti Westerns such as Johnny Oro to being the musical director and conductor in Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal.
In 1985 he won the David di Donatello Best Music award for the film score of Pizza Connection.
Carlo Savina came from a musical family—his father was the first clarinet for the orchestra of 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. 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, and perhaps underrated, screen and television composers of the 20th century.
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Known For
The Godfather
(1972)
Conductor
Amarcord
(1973)
Conductor
The Taming of the Shrew
(1967)
Conductor
Roma
(1972)
Conductor
Red Desert
(1964)
Conductor
Saladin the Victorious
(1963)
Conductor
The Magnificent One
(1973)
Conductor
Juliet of the Spirits
(1965)
Conductor
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(1970)
Conductor
Hercules
(1958)
Conductor
Lisa and the Devil
(1973)
Original Music Composer
The Bachelor
(1955)
Conductor
Fellini's Casanova
(1976)
Conductor
It Started in Naples
(1960)
Original Music Composer
1001 Nights of Pleasure
(1972)
Music
A Difficult Life
(1961)
Original Music Composer
Full Filmography
Sound
Che tempi!
(1948)
Conductor
Mamma mia, che impressione!
(1951)
Conductor
Totò cerca pace
(1954)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Il coraggio
(1955)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
A Hero of Our Times
(1955)
Conductor
Scandal in Sorrento
(1955)
Conductor
Girls of Today
(1955)
Conductor
The Bachelor
(1955)
Conductor
Presentimento
(1956)
Original Music Composer
The Awakening
(1956)
Conductor
The Violent Patriot
(1956)
Conductor
Nero's Mistress
(1956)
Conductor
What a Woman!
(1956)
Conductor
Noi siamo le colonne
(1956)
Conductor
Te stò aspettanno
(1957)
Music
Lazzarella
(1957)
Conductor
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl
(1957)
Conductor
Marisa la civetta
(1957)
Conductor
Goddess Of Love
(1957)
Conductor
The Mine
(1958)
Conductor
Toto and Marcellino
(1958)
Conductor
You, Your Mother, and Me
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Hercules
(1958)
Conductor
The Naked Maja
(1958)
Conductor
Herod the Great
(1959)
Original Music Composer
European Nights
(1959)
Original Music Composer
Ferdinand I King of Naples
(1959)
Conductor
The Moralist
(1959)
Original Music Composer
Hercules Unchained
(1959)
Conductor
The Magistrate
(1959)
Conductor
The Head of a Tyrant
(1959)
Original Music Composer
It Started in Naples
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Caccia al marito
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Messalina
(1960)
Conductor
I baccanali di Tiberio
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Ferragosto in Bikini
(1960)
Original Music Composer
The Cossacks
(1960)
Conductor
Che femmina!! E... che dollari!
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Scandali al mare
(1961)
Original Music Composer
Black City
(1961)
Music
A Difficult Life
(1961)
Original Music Composer
Sword of the Conqueror
(1961)
Conductor
The Policeman on Horseback
(1961)
Conductor
Gerarchi si muore
(1961)
Original Music Composer
Le magnifiche 7
(1961)
Original Music Composer
Seduction Of The South
(1961)
Conductor
Goliath and the Vampires
(1961)
Conductor
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
(1961)
Conductor
Bellezze sulla spiaggia
(1961)
Original Music Composer
The Corsican Brothers
(1961)
Conductor
La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo
(1961)
Music
The Fury of Achilles
(1962)
Original Music Composer
Twist lolite e vitelloni
(1962)
Original Music Composer
The Rebel Gladiators
(1962)
Original Music Composer
Eva
(1962)
Music Director
Disorder
(1962)
Conductor
Carmen di Trastevere
(1962)
Conductor
Samson Against the Sheik
(1962)
Original Music Composer
Gli italiani e le donne
(1962)
Original Music Composer
War Gods of Babylon
(1962)
Original Music Composer
I Am Semiramis
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Hercules Against the Mongols
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Siamo tutti pomicioni
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Ursus in the Land of Fire
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Revenge of the Black Knight
(1963)
Music
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Le motorizzate
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Zorro in the Court of Spain
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Saladin the Victorious
(1963)
Conductor
Crazy Sea
(1963)
Conductor
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
(1963)
Conductor
Dal sabato al lunedì
(1963)
Conductor
Seven from Thebes
(1964)
Music
Crypt of the Vampire
(1964)
Music
Queste pazze, pazze donne
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Bullet in the Flesh
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Le tardone
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Veneri al sole
(1964)
Music
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
(1964)
Music
Red Desert
(1964)
Conductor
Time of Indifference
(1964)
Conductor
Sedotti e bidonati
(1964)
Conductor
Amore mio
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Juliet of the Spirits
(1965)
Conductor
Two Vikings
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Latin Lovers
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Secret Agent Fireball
(1965)
Original Music Composer
In the Shadow of the Eagles
(1966)
Music
Suicide Mission to Singapore
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Killers Are Challenged
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Fury in Marrakesh
(1966)
Original Music Composer
The Tall Women
(1966)
Music
A Few Dollars for Django
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Mutiny at Fort Sharpe
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Ringo and His Golden Pistol
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Delitto d'amore
(1966)
Sound
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Si muore solo una volta
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Die Easy in Ghentar
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Vietnam guerra senza fronte
(1967)
Sound
The Taming of the Shrew
(1967)
Conductor
Dynamite Joe
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
(1968)
Original Music Composer
The Two Magnificent Fresconi
(1968)
Music
Gun Shy Piluk
(1968)
Original Music Composer
I Love You
(1968)
Original Music Composer
A Long Ride from Hell
(1968)
Original Music Composer
The Young, the Evil and the Savage
(1968)
Conductor and Original Music Composer
Death Knows No Time
(1968)
Music
Caprice Italian Style
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Vengeance
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Fangs of the Living Dead
(1969)
Original Music Composer
The Unnaturals
(1969)
Music
Heads or Tails
(1969)
Original Music Composer
The Two Kennedys
(1969)
Music
Simon Bolivar
(1969)
Original Music Composer
And God Said to Cain
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Shadow of Illusion
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Mr. Superinvisible
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Your Sweet Body to Kill
(1970)
Music and Conductor
Belle d'amore
(1970)
Original Music Composer
The Particular Love
(1970)
Music
The Clowns
(1970)
Conductor
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(1970)
Conductor
The Great Swindle
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Nights and Loves of Don Juan
(1971)
Original Music Composer
The Feast of Satan
(1971)
Music
Conquest
(1971)
Music
Night of the Damned
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Eye of the Spider
(1971)
Music
School of Erotic Enjoyment
(1971)
Music
The Last Traitor
(1971)
Music
Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death
(1971)
Music
Trinity and Sartana Are Coming
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Sentence of God
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Siege of Terror
(1972)
Original Music Composer
1001 Nights of Pleasure
(1972)
Music
Two Brothers in Trinity
(1972)
Original Music Composer
An Animal Called Man
(1972)
Music
Naked Girl Killed in the Park
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Roma
(1972)
Conductor
The Godfather
(1972)
Conductor
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Ingrid on the Road
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Fra' Tazio da Velletri
(1973)
Original Music Composer
The Legend of Blood Castle
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia
(1973)
Music
The Magnificent One
(1973)
Conductor
Amarcord
(1973)
Conductor
Love and Anarchy
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Lisa and the Devil
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Heart
(1973)
Music
Night of the Skull
(1974)
Original Music Composer
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Carnality
(1974)
Music
La profanazione
(1974)
Music
The Castro's Abbess
(1974)
Original Music Composer
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
(1974)
Original Music Composer
A Diary of a Murderess
(1975)
Original Music Composer
The House of Exorcism
(1975)
Music
Savage Man Savage Beast
(1975)
Music
A Virgin in the Family
(1975)
Music
L'ingenua
(1975)
Original Music Composer
La bolognese
(1975)
Original Music Composer
Reflections in Black
(1975)
Music
Intimate Relations
(1975)
Original Music Composer
Heat in the Suburbs
(1975)
Original Music Composer
Campagnola bella
(1976)
Music
Dear Michele
(1976)
Conductor
Fellini's Casanova
(1976)
Conductor
Caligula's Hot Nights
(1977)
Original Music Composer
Nine Guests for a Crime
(1977)
Original Music Composer
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
(1977)
Music
Obscene Desire
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Suggestionata
(1978)
Music
The Perfect Crime
(1978)
Music
Orchestra Rehearsal
(1978)
Conductor and Music Consultant
Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
(1978)
Music
Comin' at Ya!
(1981)
Music
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
(1981)
Conductor
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
(1982)
Original Music Composer
Tiger Joe
(1982)
Original Music Composer
The Future Is Woman
(1984)
Original Music Composer
The Sicilian Connection
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Down There in the Jungle
(1986)
Music
Crew
Writing
Camera