Armando Trovajoli

Known for SoundBorn 1917-09-02Died 2013-02-28Rome, Lazio, Italy

Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola. Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013. After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse, a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers, in a style extremely refined and sophisticated, very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time. Together with Goffredo Petrassi, Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949). In 1951, Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna, a film directed by Alberto Lattuada: particularly the song El Negro Zumbón became an international success: inspired by tropical rhythms, is sung in playback and danced by Silvana Mangano, but actually performed by Flo Sandon's. Since then, Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors as Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola and others, for a total of over 300 scores. Source: Article "Armando Trovajoli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

Violence and Love

Always on Sunday

A qualcuna piace calvo

Brothers of Italy

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

Blackmail Chase

I terribili sette

Questo amore ai confini del mondo

The Prince with the Red Mask

In Italia si chiama amore

I piaceri dello scapolo

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Cinecittà Cinecittà

A Special Day

How, When, and with Whom

Rugantino

La Famiglia Benvenuti

Un momento muy largo

La Dolce Vita

East Zone, West Zone

The Orderly

Berlin '39

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

Camping

Caravan of songs

Assault on the State Treasure

The Wicked

Two Women

Aggiungi un posto a tavola

The Family

Marriage Italian Style

What Time Is It?

Little Girls and High Finance

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

The Conspirators

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

Scent of a Woman

Down With Uncle

Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan

The Treasure of San Gennaro

Running Away

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Unfair Competition

The Widower

The Visitor

The Monsters

The Terrace

La Tosca