Gianni Ferrio
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| Born | 15 November 1924 Vicenza, Italy |
| Died | 21 October 2013 (aged 88) Rome, Italy |
Gianni Ferrio (15 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger.
Life and career
Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at conservatories of Vicenza and Venice.[1] He started working at the end of the fifties, and was active as a composer of film scores such as Wanted (1967), Alive or Preferably Dead (1969), Io, Emmanuelle (1969), A Bullet for Sandoval (1969), The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971), Death Walks at Midnight (1972) and Tony Arzenta (1973).[1] His piece "One Silver Dollar", the main theme to Giorgio Ferroni's Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965), was later included in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.[2]
He was also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed, among others, the hit song "Parole parole", and wrote arrangements and orchestrations for numerous of her songs and albums.[3][4] The last collaboration with Mina was for her 2012 album 12 (American Song Book), for which Ferrio traditionally provided the string arrangements.
He was the official conductor for Sanremo Music Festival in 1959 and 1962 and for the Eurovision Song Contest 1965.[5] He also took part, as conductor, in several important Italian TV-shows.[1]
Ferrio was married to ballerina and film actress Alba Arnova.[6]
Selected filmography
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961)
- The Two Colonels (1962)
- Obiettivo ragazze (1963)
- Heroes of the West (1964)
- Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965)
- The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (1967)
- Wanted (1967)
- The Dirty Outlaws (1967)
- Death Sentence (1968)
- Find a Place to Die (1968)
- Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968)
- Alive or Preferably Dead (1969)
- A Man for Emmanuelle (1969)
- A Bullet for Sandoval (1969)
- Rendezvous with Dishonour (1970)
- A Man Called Sledge (1970)
- Death Occurred Last Night (1970)
- The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
- Long Live Your Death (1971)
- Alta tensión (1972)
- Death Walks at Midnight (1972)
- La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo (1973)
- Tony Arzenta (1973)
- Puzzle (1974)
- Policewoman (1974)
- Classe mista (1976)
- Per amore di Poppea (1977)
- La compagna di banco (1977)
- The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High (1977)
- Blazing Flowers (1978)
- How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover (1978)
- La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti (1978)
- How to Seduce Your Teacher (1979)
- The Nurse in the Military Madhouse (1979)
- La ripetente fa l'occhietto al preside (1980)
- I Don't Understand You Anymore (1980)
- I'm Getting a Yacht (1980)
- L'onorevole con l'amante sotto il letto (1981)
- Delitto passionale (1994)
References
- ^ a b c Enrico Deregibus. Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. p. 189. ISBN 8809756258.
- ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Original Soundtrack Inglourious Basterds". AllMusic.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Dora Giannetti. Divina Mina. Dalai editore, 1998. pp. 43–44, 61–62. ISBN 8886471726.
- ^ Ezio Guaitamacchi. Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita. Rizzoli, 2009. ISBN 8817033928.
- ^ "Eurovision Songfest Honors Go To French Teener France Gall". Billboard Vol. 77, No. 14. April 1965.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. Le straniere del nostro cinema. Gremese Editore, 2005. p. 89. ISBN 8884403502.
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