Nini Rinaldi. Born in 1911 in Milan, in a family of musicians. As a child, after moving to Rome, he entered the conservatory, which he graduated in 1929. Even at the conservatory, Rota was known as a child prodigy – he established himself as a composer and conductor of the orchestra, and his first oratorio “L’infanzia di San Giovanni Battista” was staged in Milan and Paris in 1923. From 1930 to 1932, Rota lived in the United States, received a degree from the Curtis Institute, where he studied composition
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Nini Rinaldi. Born in 1911 in Milan, in a family of musicians. As a child, after moving to Rome, he entered the conservatory, which he graduated in 1929. Even at the conservatory, Rota was known as a child prodigy – he established himself as a composer and conductor of the orchestra, and his first oratorio “L’infanzia di San Giovanni Battista” was staged in Milan and Paris in 1923. From 1930 to 1932, Rota lived in the United States, received a degree from the Curtis Institute, where he studied composition under Rosario Scalero and orchestra under Fritz Rainer. Upon his return to Italy, he studied literature at the University of Milan, and later began his teaching career in 1937. From 1950 until his death in 1979, he served as director of the Bari Conservatory. He is the author of a number of operas, including Ariodante (1942), Torquemada (1943), I due timidi (1950), Il capello di paglia di Firenze (1955), La notte di un neurastenico (1959-1960), Aladino e la lampada magica (1968), La visita meravigliosa (1970), Naples milionaria (1977), and ballets La rappresentazione di Adamo ed Evaaire (1957), La Strada (1965), the poeta di Morija (1976), and the "Amagina di Mora" (1976). In addition, the composer created a huge number of works for the orchestra, many of which are still performed all over the world. Since the early 40s, Rota began to write music for films, worked with directors Renato Castellani, Luchino Visconti, Franco Zeffirrelli, Mario Monicelli, Francis Ford Coppola (in 1974, Rota was awarded the Oscar for the best musical accompaniment to his film The Godfather: Part II), Eduardo de Filippo, but the most fruitful was his long-term collaboration with Federico Fellini - Rota is the author of music for all his films, starting with the "White" (1952) and "The White Orchestra". In addition to music for films, the composer was the author of musical accompaniment for theatrical productions of Eduardo de Filippo, Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti. He died in Rome in 1979.