Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Person1909-1987

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

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

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The Lost Continent

L'Ultimo Paradiso (Das Letzte Paradies)

Venere Imperiale

Vaticano II

I Tabù (Dalla Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)

Kali Yug, La Dea Della Vendetta (Original Soundtrack)

5000 Dollari Sull'Asso (Colonna Sonora Originale)

Saladino

Orson Welles Falstaff (Chimes At Midnight)

Requiem Per Un Gringo (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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

7 Eroiche Carogne (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)

Le Regine

Angeli Senza Paradiso

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

La Sposa Bella

Orson Welles' Othello (The Original Motion Picture Score)

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

La Maja Desnuda

Saffo Venere Di Lesbo (Original Soundtrack)

Agente 077 Missione Bloody Mary (Original Soundtrack)

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

L'Impero Del Sole (Original Soundtrack)

Vendetta Per Vendetta (Original Soundtrack)

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

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

Dio Non Paga Il Sabato (Original Soundtrack)

Totò D'Arabia (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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

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

Il Castello Dei Morti Vivi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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

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

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

La Grande Olimpiade (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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

Madame Sans Gêne (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Sapevano Solo Uccidere (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Maciste Contro Il Vampiro (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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

La Leggenda Di Fra Diavolo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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

Delitto A Posillipo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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