Armando Trovajoli

Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: September 2, 1917
Day of Death: February 28, 2013 (96 years old)
Place of Birth: Rome, 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.
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The Career of a Chambermaid

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Luna di miele in tre

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La banca di Monate

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Dimmi che fai tutto per me

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Blackmail Chase

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Shadows in an Empty Room

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Evil Thoughts
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I See Naked

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Where Are You Going All Naked?

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Lovemaker

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A Bullet for Rommel
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Faustina

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Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
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The Spy Who Loved Flowers

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Seven Golden Men Strike Again
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Always on Sunday

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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

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Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan

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Le pillole di Ercole

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La Dolce Vita

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I piaceri del sabato notte
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The Widower

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La cento chilometri

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La cento chilometri

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Winter Holidays

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Uncle Was a Vampire

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