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The Godfather is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1972 by Paramount Records, and in 1991 on compact disc by MCA.Unless noted, the cues were composed by Nino Rota and conducted by Carlo Savina (who was credited on the LP, but not the CD).
Rota at age 12. Giovanni Rota Rinaldi was born on 3 December 1911 into a musical family in Milan, Italy. [1] Rota was a renowned child prodigy – his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 [4] and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 ...
"Love Theme from The Godfather" is an instrumental theme from the 1972 film The Godfather, composed by Nino Rota. The piece was lyricized in English by Larry Kusik into " Speak Softly, Love ", a popular song released in 1972.
The original score was composed by Nino Rota and conducted by Carmine Coppola, who also provided source music for the film. Rota expands upon two of the three main themes from the first film : "The Godfather Waltz" and "Michael's Theme", while "The Love Theme" from the first film makes a brief appearance during a flashback sequence ("Remember ...
He also wrote the scores for Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968), Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II. For Fellini alone, Rota produced almost 80 film scores starting with The White Sheik in 1952 and ending with the unfairly forgotten Orchestra Rehearsal in 1979, [ 8 ...
Now, on the film's 30th anniversary, Coppola said this is his chance to rewrite the disappointing conclusion to his Shakespearean series on family, violence and betrayal (cue composer Nina Rota's ...
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).
Singer-songwriter Pink performed the theme song in NBC's first year airing Sunday Night Football in 2006. Country singer Faith Hill, who sang a new arrangement of the Jett "I Hate Myself for ...