1911 - 1979
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈrɔːta riˈnaldi]; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (IPA: [ˈniːno]), 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 screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).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 1,014,656 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Nino Rota is the 80th most popular composer (down from 74th in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 279th 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 80 out of 1,216. Before him are Josquin des Prez, Jules Massenet, Dieterich Buxtehude, Gabriel Fauré, Franz Lehár, and Carl Czerny. After him are Hans Zimmer, Luigi Boccherini, César Franck, Leoš Janáček, Alban Berg, and Olivier Messiaen.
1450 - 1521
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 74
1842 - 1912
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 75
1637 - 1707
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 76
1845 - 1924
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 77
1870 - 1948
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 78
1791 - 1857
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 79
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 80
1957 - Present
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 81
1743 - 1805
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 82
1822 - 1890
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 83
1854 - 1928
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 84
1885 - 1935
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 85
1908 - 1992
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 86
Among people born in 1911, Nino Rota ranks 10. Before him are Konstantin Chernenko, Georges Pompidou, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, and Władysław Szpilman. After him are William Golding, Todor Zhivkov, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Marshall McLuhan, Czesław Miłosz, and Jack Ruby. Among people deceased in 1979, Nino Rota ranks 7. Before him are Josef Mengele, Park Chung-hee, John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Talcott Parsons, and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. After him are Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Hafizullah Amin, Jean Seberg, Sándor Kocsis, and Jean Monnet.
1911 - 1985
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 4
1911 - 1974
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 5
1911 - 2006
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 6
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 8
1911 - 2000
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 9
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 10
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 11
1911 - 1998
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 12
1911 - 2013
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 13
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 14
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 15
1911 - 1967
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 16
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 1
1917 - 1979
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 2
1907 - 1979
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 3
1910 - 1979
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 4
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 5
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 6
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 7
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 8
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 9
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
1938 - 1979
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 11
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 12
1888 - 1979
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 13
Among people born in Italy, Nino Rota ranks 322 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Sixtus I (42), Giuliano de' Medici (1453), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Pope Celestine I (400), Pope Gelasius II (1062), and Christine de Pizan (1365). After him are Umberto I of Italy (1844), Antonio Meucci (1808), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), Duccio (1255), Pope Sylvester III (1000), and Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378).
42 - 124
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 316
1453 - 1478
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 317
1465 - 1526
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 318
400 - 432
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 319
1062 - 1119
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 320
1365 - 1430
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 321
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 322
1844 - 1900
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 323
1808 - 1889
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 324
1696 - 1770
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 325
1255 - 1319
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 326
1000 - 1060
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 327
1378 - 1455
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 328
Among composers born in Italy, Nino Rota ranks 16. Before him are Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660). After him are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Pietro Mascagni (1863), Luigi Cherubini (1760), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Jacopo Peri (1561), and Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857).
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 11
1685 - 1757
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 12
1801 - 1835
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 13
1710 - 1736
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 14
1660 - 1725
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 15
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 16
1743 - 1805
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 17
1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 18
1760 - 1842
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 19
1566 - 1613
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 20
1561 - 1633
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 21
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 22