20th-century Italian musicians

The list 20th-century Italian musicians includes Totò, Ludovico Einaudi, Fausto Papetti, Ennio Morricone and Giacomo Puccini. The list consists of 466 members and 8 sublists.

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20th-century Italian singers
4L, 383T
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20th-century Italian composers
3L, 337T
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20th-century Italian male musicians
1L, 542T
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20th-century Italian conductors (music)
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20th-century Italian women musicians
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- Tiziana Rivale
20th-century Italian guitarists
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- Pino Daniele
- Stefano Rosso
20th-century Italian musicologists
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20th-century Italian pianists
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Fausto Papetti

Italian musician

Overview: Fausto Papetti (Viggiù, 28 January 1923 – San Remo, 15 June 1999) was an Italian alto saxophone player. A jazz musician by formation, Papetti became widely known for producing instrumental covers of some ...

Date of birth: 28 January 1923

Date of death: 15 June 1999

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

Male saxophonists 249T
2.

Totò

Italian comedian

Overview: Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and ...

Date of birth: 15 February 1898

Date of death: 15 April 1967

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Writers from Naples 50T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century comedians 466T
3.

Ludovico Einaudi

Italian composer

Overview: Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI ( born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later inc ...

Date of birth: 23 November 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Turin 87T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

Male classical pianists 1,919T
4.

Mantovani

British musician

Overview: Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (15 November 1905 – 29 March 1980), known mononymously as Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1905

Date of death: 29 March 1980

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Venice 66T

20th-century Italian conductors (music) 146T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T
5.

Ennio Morricone

Italian composer

Overview: Ennio Morricone, (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles. Morricone composed over 400 scores ...

Date of birth: 10 November 1928

Date of death: 6 July 2020

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Maria Travia (Married)

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Composers from Rome 61T

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients 95T

Italian male film score composers 131T
6.

Giacomo Puccini

Italian composer

Overview: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ( puu-CHEE-nee, poo-; 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1858

Date of death: 29 November 1924

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Lucca 19T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

19th-century male musicians 2,319T
7.

Giacomo Balla

Italian artist (1871-1958)

Overview: Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1871

Date of death: 1 March 1958

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Artists from Turin 37T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
8.

Tony Croatto

Italian musician

Overview: Hermes Davide Fastino Croatto Martinis, better known as Tony Croatto (March 2, 1940, some sources state his year of birth as 1939 – April 3, 2005) was an Italian singer and composer best known for his ...

Date of birth: 2 March 1940

Date of death: 3 April 2005

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Uruguayan male guitarists 22T

20th-century male singers 5,297T

20th-century American guitarists 3,517T
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Claudio Abbado

Conductor

Overview: Claudio Abbado, (26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1933

Date of death: 20 January 2014

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Male

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Deaths from cancer in Emilia-Romagna 18T

20th-century Italian conductors (music) 153T

21st-century Italian conductors (music) 117T
10.

Pino Daniele

Italian musician and composer

Overview: Pino Daniele (19 March 1955 – 4 January 2015) was an Italian singer-songwriter, and guitarist, whose influences covered a wide number of genres, including pop, blues, jazz, and Italian and Middle Eastern ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1955

Date of death: 5 January 2015

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

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Disease-related deaths in Lazio 43T

Italian male guitarists 92T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T
11.

Piero Umiliani

Italian composer

Overview: Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 – 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores, and is most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" and orchestra score "Arrivano I Marines".

Date of birth: 17 July 1926

Date of death: 14 February 2001

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Soundtrack

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Florence 78T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
12.

Riz Ortolani

Italian film composer

Overview: Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film composer. Ortolani scored over two-hundred films working mostly within the Italian genres of Mondo, Giallo, and the S ...

Date of birth: 25 March 1926

Date of death: 23 January 2014

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Disease-related deaths in Lazio 43T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
13.

Piero Piccioni

Italian composer

Overview: Piero Piccioni (December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer.

Date of birth: 6 December 1921

Date of death: 23 July 2004

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Soundtrack

Gender: Male

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Italian male film score composers 125T

Musicians from Turin 101T

20th-century Italian male musicians 532T
14.

Bruno Nicolai

Italian composer

Overview: Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 in Rome – 16 August 1991 in Rome) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.

Date of birth: 26 May 1926

Date of death: 16 August 1991

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

20th-century Italian composers 294T
15.

Nino Rota

Italian composer (1911–1979)

Overview: 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 ...

Date of birth: 3 December 1911

Date of death: 10 April 1979

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Conservatorio Santa Cecilia alumni 14T

Best Original Music BAFTA Award winners 40T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T
16.

Cosimo Damiano Lanza

Italian classical pianist

Overview: Cosimo Damiano Lanza (born 12 April 1962) is an Italian pianist, harpsichordist and composer.

Date of birth: 12 April 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

Male classical pianists 1,919T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
17.

Mariano Garau

Italian composer

Overview: Mariano Garau (1952) is an Italian contemporary composer.

Date of birth: 14 March 1952

Age: 73

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
18.

Duke Montana

Italian actor

Overview: Duke Montana born Duke Barker (7 February 1975 in Rome) better known as Grind Muzik Rap King is an Italian-American rapper, actor and businessman. He collaborated with several Italian and American rappers ...

Date of birth: 7 February 1976

Age: 49

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Rapper

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
19.

Pino Presti

Italian musician

Overview: Giuseppe Prestipino Giarritta (born 23 August 1943), professionally known by his pseudonym Pino Presti, is an Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor and record producer from Milan. He is a 5th-dan ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Karate

Gender: Male

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Italian multi-instrumentalists 5T

20th-century Italian conductors (music) 146T

21st-century Italian conductors (music) 105T
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Caravelli

Italian musician

Overview: Caravelli (born Claude Vasori; 12 September 1930, Paris, France – 1 April 2019, Cannet, France) was a French orchestra leader, composer and arranger of orchestral music.

Date of birth: 12 September 1930

Date of death: 1 April 2019

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century French conductors (music) 154T

21st-century French conductors (music) 129T

21st-century French male musicians 467T