Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

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Angelo Francesco Lavagnino's albums, compilations, and singles and EPs discography with cataloged releases, editions, and credits

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Italian composer, arranger, conductor and violinist. Born: February 22nd, 1909 in Genoa, Italy. Died: August 21st, 1987 in Gavi, Italy. Angelo Francesco Lavagnino was born into a family with musicians on both sides in 1909, and, attracted to the sight and sounds of a live theater orchestra, he first discovered film music as a boy during the silent era. He later attended the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, where he studied composition under Renzo Bossi. He graduated in the early '30s and, in the years that followed, he composed several symphonies, a large body of chamber music, a small group of symphonic poems, and one opera. He was also a teacher at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena between the ages of 32-53. Lavagnino began composing music for films in the early '50s, and by the time he'd retired two decades later, had amassed credits for some 300 movies, including Orson Welles' Othello and Chimes at Midnight, the science fiction thriller Gorgo, the fantasy film Lost Continent, the adventure yarn Legend of the Lost, and costume epics such as The Last Days of Pompeii (1960). Lavagnino had a special gift for melody and a talent for orchestration that manifested themselves in the best of those scores, particularly Gorgo -- whose folk-based soundtrack is often referred to as the prettiest score ever to grace a dinosaur movie -- and Legend of the Lost. Lavagnino was very nearly the choice of Sergio Leone to score A Fistful of Dollars -- having composed the music for the director's The Last Days of Pompeii and The Colossus of Rhodes. Leone was favorably disposed toward him, but the insistence of Leone's distributor that he meet with Ennio Morricone led to the revelation that they had attended grammar school together, so the director gave the assignment to Morricone. Despite losing that job, Lavagnino remained one of the busiest screen composers in England, and continued working until the mid-'70s on films that included his share of spaghetti Westerns. He died August 21, 1987.

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The Lost Continent

1957

Studio Album

L'Ultimo Paradiso (Das Letzte Paradies)

1957

Studio Album

Venere Imperiale

1963

Studio Album

Vaticano II

1963

Studio Album

I Tabù (Dalla Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)

1963

Studio Album

Kali Yug, La Dea Della Vendetta (Original Soundtrack)

1964

Studio Album

5000 Dollari Sull'Asso (Colonna Sonora Originale)

1965

Studio Album

Saladino

1965

Studio Album

Orson Welles Falstaff (Chimes At Midnight)

1966

Studio Album

Requiem Per Un Gringo (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

1968

Studio Album

La Battaglia Dell'Ultimo Panzer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

1968

Studio Album

7 Eroiche Carogne (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)

1969

Studio Album

Le Regine

1971

Studio Album

Angeli Senza Paradiso

1971

Studio Album

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

1984

Studio Album

La Sposa Bella

1991

Studio Album

Orson Welles' Othello (The Original Motion Picture Score)

1993

Studio Album

More Monstrous Movie Music (Tarantula / The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms / The Monolith Monsters / Gorgo)

1996

Studio Album

La Maja Desnuda

1997

Studio Album

Saffo Venere Di Lesbo (Original Soundtrack)

2007

Studio Album

Agente 077 Missione Bloody Mary (Original Soundtrack)

2008

Studio Album

Dark Purpose (L'Intrigo) (Colonna Sonora Originale - Edizione Speciale)

2008

Studio Album

L'Impero Del Sole (Original Soundtrack)

2008

Studio Album

Vendetta Per Vendetta (Original Soundtrack)

2009

Studio Album

Oggi A Me... Domani A Te! (Original Soundtrack)

2009

Studio Album

L'Assedio Di Siracusa (Archimede) (Original Soundtrack)

2009

Studio Album

Dio Non Paga Il Sabato (Original Soundtrack)

2010

Studio Album

Totò D'Arabia (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2010

Studio Album

Historia De Una Chica Sola (La Cena) (Original Soundtrack)

2010

Studio Album

Sfida A Rio Bravo (Colonna Sonora Originale - Edizione Speciale)

2010

Studio Album

Il Castello Dei Morti Vivi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2011

Studio Album

L’Ultimo Paradiso (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack »In Full Stereo«)

2011

Studio Album

T'Ammazzo!... Raccomandati A Dio (Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2012

Studio Album

I Briganti Italiani (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack In Full Stereo)

2014

Studio Album

La Grande Olimpiade (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2015

Studio Album

The Wonders Of Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack »In Full Stereo«)

2016

Studio Album

Madame Sans Gêne (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2016

Studio Album

Sapevano Solo Uccidere (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2016

Studio Album

Maciste Contro Il Vampiro (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2016

Studio Album

Il Relitto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack »In Full Stereo«)

2017

Studio Album

La Leggenda Di Fra Diavolo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2018

Studio Album

Ercole Sfida Sansone (Hercules, Samson And Ulysses) - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

2024

Studio Album

Delitto A Posillipo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2025

Studio Album

Musica Per Tutte Le Ore

Studio Album