Franco Piersanti

Italian composer and conductor

Franco Piersanti

Piersanti at the 2023 Bari International Film Festival

Born| 12 January 1950 (1950-01-12) (age 74)

Rome, Italy

Franco Piersanti (born 12 January 1950) is an Italian composer and conductor.

Born in Rome, Piersanti graduated in double bass at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied composition under the guidance of Armando Renzi and conducting under Franco Ferrara and Piero Bellugi.[1] He later played bass in the RAI Symphony Orchestra.

During his studies he knew the composer Nino Rota, and he became his assistant between 1975 and 1977.[2] In 1976 he debuted as film composer scoring the Nanni Moretti's first film, Io sono un autarchico and then started a long collaboration with him that continued with Moretti's Habemus Papam (2011).[2]

Piersanti is also well known for his long collaboration with the director Gianni Amelio, for whom he scored seven movies between 1982 and 2006, including The Stolen Children (1992) and Lamerica (1994), for which he won two David di Donatello for Best Score.[1]

His soundtracks include Love and Fear (1988), The Second Time (1995), Inspector Montalbano (1999), The Best Day of My Life (2002), The Beast in the Heart (2005), My Brother is an Only Child (2007) and Fort Apache Napoli (2009).

## References

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1. ^ a b Emanuela Martini. Gianni Amelio. Il castoro, 2006.
2. ^ a b Susanna Buffa. Un musicista per il cinema. Carocci, 2004.

## External links

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* Franco Piersanti Official Website
* Franco Piersanti at IMDb
* Franco Piersanti at Discogs

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David di Donatello Award for Best Score

1975–2000|

* Piero Piccioni (1975)
* Franco Mannino (1976)
* Nino Rota (1977)
* Armando Trovajoli (1978)
* Fiorenzo Carpi (1981)
* Lucio Dalla and Fabio Liberatori (1982)
* Angelo Branduardi (1983)
* Armando Trovajoli and Vladimir Cosma (1984)
* Carlo Savina (1985)
* Riz Ortolani / Nicola Piovani (1986)
* Ennio Morricone (1988)
* Ennio Morricone (1989)
* Claudio Mattone (1990)
* Ennio Morricone (1991)
* Franco Piersanti (1992)
* Ennio Morricone (1993)
* Nicola Piovani (1994)
* Franco Piersanti (1995)
* Manuel De Sica (1996)
* Paolo Conte (1997)
* Nino D'Angelo (1998)
* Ennio Morricone (1999)
* Ennio Morricone (2000)

2001–present|

* Nicola Piovani (2001)
* Fabio Vacchi (2002)
* Andrea Guerra (2003)
* Banda Osiris (2004)
* Riz Ortolani (2005)
* Franco Piersanti (2006)
* Ennio Morricone (2007)
* Paolo Buonvino (2008)
* Teho Teardo (2009)
* Ennio Morricone (2010)
* Rita Marcotulli and Rocco Papaleo (2011)
* David Byrne (2012)
* Ennio Morricone (2013)
* Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2014)
* Giuliano Taviani (2015)
* David Lang (2016)
* Enzo Avitabile (2017)
* Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2018)
* Sascha Ring and Philipp Thimm (2019)
* Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (2020)
* Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo and Downtown Boys (2021)
* Nicola Piovani (2022)
* Stefano Bollani (2023)
* Subsonica (2024)

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Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Score

1947–1960|

* Renzo Rossellini (1947)
* Renzo Rossellini (1948)
* Alessandro Cicognini (1949)
* Roman Vlad (1950)
* Giovanni Fusco (1951)
* Mario Nascimbene (1952)
* Valentino Bucchi (1953)
* Mario Zafred (1954)
* Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1955)
* Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1956)
* Nino Rota (1957)
* Nino Rota (1958)
* Carlo Rustichelli (1959)
* Mario Nascimbene (1960)

1961–1980|

* Giovanni Fusco (1961)
* Giorgio Gaslini (1962)
* Piero Piccioni (1963)
* Nino Rota (1964)
* Ennio Morricone (1965)
* Armando Trovajoli (1966)
* Carlo Rustichelli (1967)
* Mario Nascimbene (1968)
* Nino Rota (1969)
* Ennio Morricone (1970)
* Stelvio Cipriani (1971)
* Ennio Morricone (1972)
* Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis (1973)
* Tony Renis (1974)
* Giancarlo Chiaramello (1975)
* Adriano Celentano (1976)
* Fred Bongusto (1977)
* Armando Trovajoli (1978)
* Nino Rota (1979)
* Fred Bongusto (1980)

1981–2000|

* Riz Ortolani (1981)
* Lucio Dalla / Fabio Liberatori (1982)
* Angelo Branduardi (1983)
* Riz Ortolani (1984)
* Ennio Morricone (1985)
* Tony Esposito (1986)
* Armando Trovajoli / Riz Ortolani / Giovanni Nuti (1987)
* Ennio Morricone (1988)
* Eugenio Bennato / Carlo D'Angiò (1989)
* Claudio Mattone (1990)
* Nicola Piovani (1991)
* Pino Daniele (1992)
* Manuel De Sica (1993)
* Federico De Robertis (1994)
* Luis Enríquez Bacalov (1995)
* Lucio Dalla (1996)
* Paolo Conte (1997)
* Nino D'Angelo (1998)
* Eugenio Bennato (1999)
* Ennio Morricone (2000)

2001–present|

* Ennio Morricone (2001)
* Edoardo Bennato (2002)
* Nicola Piovani (2003)
* Paolo Fresu (2004)
* Banda Osiris (2005)
* Negramaro / Roy Paci / Fabio Barovero / Simone Fabbroni / Louis Siciliano (2006)
* Ennio Morricone (2007)
* Paolo Buonvino (2008)
* Paolo Buonvino (2009)
* Rita Marcotulli (2010)
* Negramaro (2011)
* Franco Piersanti (2012)
* Ennio Morricone (2013)
* Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2014)
* Nicola Piovani (2015)
* Carlo Virzì (2016)
* Enzo Avitabile (2017)
* Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2018)
* Nicola Piovani (2019)

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