1911 - 1979
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈrɔːta riˈnaldi]; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota ([niːno]), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974) which was later revoked after a determination was made that the score was not original.During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 — an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nino Rota has received more than 682,491 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Nino Rota is the 74th most popular composer (up from 83rd in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Italy (up from 341st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Composer.
Nino Rota is most famous for his work with Federico Fellini, composing the music for the films 8 1/2, Amarcord, and La Dolce Vita.
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Among composers, Nino Rota ranks 74 out of 1,228. Before him are Dieterich Buxtehude, Astor Piazzolla, Alessandro Scarlatti, Anton Webern, Charles Gounod, and Alexander Scriabin. After him are Josquin des Prez, Mikis Theodorakis, Alban Berg, Mikhail Glinka, Vangelis, and Gabriel Fauré.
1637 - 1707
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 68
1921 - 1992
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 69
1660 - 1725
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 70
1883 - 1945
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 71
1818 - 1893
HPI: 78.60
Rank: 72
1871 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 73
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 74
1450 - 1521
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 75
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 76
1885 - 1935
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 77
1804 - 1857
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 78
1943 - Present
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 79
1845 - 1924
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 80
Among people born in 1911, Nino Rota ranks 9. Before him are Josef Mengele, Konstantin Chernenko, Naguib Mahfouz, Georges Pompidou, Juan Manuel Fangio, and Emil Cioran. After him are Władysław Szpilman, Võ Nguyên Giáp, William Golding, Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, and Todor Zhivkov. Among people deceased in 1979, Nino Rota ranks 7. Before him are Josef Mengele, Park Chung-hee, John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Herbert Marcuse, and Talcott Parsons. After him are Jean Renoir, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jean Monnet, Dennis Gabor, Sándor Kocsis, and Mika Waltari.
1911 - 1979
HPI: 84.44
Rank: 3
1911 - 1985
HPI: 81.52
Rank: 4
1911 - 2006
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 5
1911 - 1974
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 6
1911 - 1995
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 79.13
Rank: 8
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 9
1911 - 2000
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 10
1911 - 2013
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 11
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 12
1911 - 1980
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 13
1911 - 1967
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 14
1911 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 15
1911 - 1979
HPI: 84.44
Rank: 1
1917 - 1979
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 2
1907 - 1979
HPI: 79.41
Rank: 3
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 4
1898 - 1979
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 5
1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 6
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 7
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 8
1900 - 1979
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 9
1888 - 1979
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 11
1929 - 1979
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 12
1908 - 1979
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 13
Among people born in Italy, Nino Rota ranks 279 out of 4,088. Before him are Pope Felix I (300), Catiline (-109), Antonio Meucci (1808), Enrico Dandolo (1107), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), and Pope Pelagius I (505). After him are Philip Neri (1515), Pope John XII (937), Pope Eugene III (1080), Filippo Lippi (1406), Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892), and Umberto II of Italy (1904).
300 - 274
HPI: 78.48
Rank: 273
109 BC - 62 BC
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 274
1808 - 1889
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 275
1107 - 1205
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 276
1649 - 1730
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 277
505 - 561
HPI: 78.35
Rank: 278
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 279
1515 - 1595
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 280
937 - 964
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 281
1080 - 1153
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 282
1406 - 1469
HPI: 78.25
Rank: 283
1892 - 1989
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 284
1904 - 1983
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 285
Among composers born in Italy, Nino Rota ranks 16. Before him are Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Guido of Arezzo (991), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660). After him are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Jacopo Peri (1561), Pietro Mascagni (1863), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), Luigi Cherubini (1760), and Carlo Gesualdo (1566).
1797 - 1848
HPI: 81.08
Rank: 10
1801 - 1835
HPI: 80.53
Rank: 11
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 12
1685 - 1757
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 13
1710 - 1736
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 14
1660 - 1725
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 15
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 16
1743 - 1805
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 17
1561 - 1633
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 18
1863 - 1945
HPI: 76.81
Rank: 19
1857 - 1919
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 20
1760 - 1842
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 21
1566 - 1613
HPI: 76.53
Rank: 22