Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Ni… Read Full Bio ↴Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Rota was born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi on 3 December 1911, into a musical family in Milan. Rota was a renowned child prodigy—his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926. He studied at the Milan conservatory there under Giacomo Orefice and then undertook serious study of composition under Ildebrando Pizzetti and Alfredo Casella at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, graduating in 1930.
Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota moved to the United States where he lived from 1930 to 1932. He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, where he was taught conducting by Fritz Reiner and had Rosario Scalero as an instructor in composition. Returning to Milan, he wrote a thesis on the Renaissance composer Gioseffo Zarlino. Rota earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he held from 1950 until 1978.
Rota had one daughter, Nina Rota, from a relationship with pianist Magda Longari. He died, age 67, from a coronary thrombosis in Rome.
During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Rota was born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi on 3 December 1911, into a musical family in Milan. Rota was a renowned child prodigy—his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926. He studied at the Milan conservatory there under Giacomo Orefice and then undertook serious study of composition under Ildebrando Pizzetti and Alfredo Casella at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, graduating in 1930.
Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota moved to the United States where he lived from 1930 to 1932. He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, where he was taught conducting by Fritz Reiner and had Rosario Scalero as an instructor in composition. Returning to Milan, he wrote a thesis on the Renaissance composer Gioseffo Zarlino. Rota earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he held from 1950 until 1978.
Rota had one daughter, Nina Rota, from a relationship with pianist Magda Longari. He died, age 67, from a coronary thrombosis in Rome.
Apollonia
Nino Rota Lyrics
Brucia la Luna n´cielu
e ju Bruciu D´amuri.
Focu ca si consuma
comu lu me cori.
L´anima chianci addulurata.
Non si da paci
ma cchio mala Nuttata.
Lu tempu passa
ma non Agghiorna.
Non c´é mai suliS´idda non torna.
Brucia la Terra mia
e abbrucia lu me cori.
Cchi siti D´acqua
idda e ju siti D´amuri.
Acu la canto
La me canzuni
si non c´é nuddu
ca s´a affacia a lu Barcuni.
Brucia la Luna n´cielu
e ju Bruciu D´amuri.
Focu ca si consuma
comu lu me cori.
Cchi siti D´acqua
idda e ju siti D´amuri.
Brucia la Terra mia
e abbrucia lu me cori.
Cchi siti D´acqua
idda e ju siti D´amuri.
Acu la canto
La me canzuni
si non c´é nuddu
ca s´a affacia a lu Barcuni.
e ju Bruciu D´amuri.
Focu ca si consuma
comu lu me cori.
L´anima chianci addulurata.
Non si da paci
ma cchio mala Nuttata.
Lu tempu passa
ma non Agghiorna.
Non c´é mai suliS´idda non torna.
Brucia la Terra mia
e abbrucia lu me cori.
Cchi siti D´acqua
idda e ju siti D´amuri.
Acu la canto
La me canzuni
si non c´é nuddu
ca s´a affacia a lu Barcuni.
Brucia la Luna n´cielu
e ju Bruciu D´amuri.
Focu ca si consuma
comu lu me cori.
Cchi siti D´acqua
idda e ju siti D´amuri.
Brucia la Terra mia
e abbrucia lu me cori.
Cchi siti D´acqua
idda e ju siti D´amuri.
Acu la canto
La me canzuni
si non c´é nuddu
ca s´a affacia a lu Barcuni.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Maddalena Pari
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@jyc313
This is hindsight since it’s a fictional film, and everything can be analyzed after the fact.
My humble opinion is that had Michael and Apollonia ended up together he would’ve been happier but not ended up as the strong leader keeping his family going. Losing her was a necessary part of his growth - to fully embrace and develop the potentials he had inside: cold, calculating, clever.
What would’ve happened, had he not taken up his father’s role? Who knows. Maybe Sonny would’ve still ended up dead and Hagen assume control - until he has no choice to negotiate a meager position for the family.. permanently diminished but not extinct.
Or maybe somehow Sonny would’ve remained alive, fighting fiercely until all is lost or achieve a Pyrrhic victory.
Such is the beauty of film. Sometimes it lets your imagination run wild.
@philipsalvatorebruno2664
Apollonia is one of those woman what are just pure as they come, the old simplicity of courtship back then what a time it was. Beautiful film then and now
@anthonygibson5561
That's why Michael dies in at Appolonia's place in third part.
@don_badr2398
@@anthonygibson5561 nah that was corleone, he just went back to the town where his father was born
@sidisalem9037
This courtship still exists
@samisastro8766
https://youtu.be/Gd2-AZKuChg
@victorblock3421
@@sidisalem9037 not in the world I live in.
@pietro_ferrari
When Apollonia died, the charisma, kindness and innocence of Michael died too.
@goncasahin2599
Charisma went on may be better but other is correct
@migelecorleone356
@@goncasahin2599 +1
@RobertSilvestri86
Pietro, correct. Sad but correct.