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    • CommentAuthorJoep
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2020 edited
    With the death of Morricone, how many, actively writing, prolific Italian film composers are there?

    Pino Donaggio, and perhaps Nicola Piovani, but I think that's it.

    There are many fine composers such as Carlo Silioto, Franco Piersanti, Paolo Buonvino, and many more, but their number of works, exceptional, inventive qualities, influences are far more limited. Of course, Donaggio and Piovani are insignificant compared to Morricone, but both these composers have a far greater number of scores for the acquired taste than the true maestro, while they have written a lot of brilliant music as well.
    • CommentAuthorOnyaBirri
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2020
    Do any contemporary Italian composers still do international jet-set bossas, like Piero Umuliani or Piero Piccioni?
    • CommentAuthorJoep
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2020
    The funky, groovy, jazzy, bossa nova, ´insert missing style´ that Umuliani and Piccioni did so well, slowly died. Umiliani used a bossa nova late into his career but didn´t have the punch of his older works. Really an end of an era. There are pastiches by some contemporary, not necessarily Italian, composers, who usually tap into a wider range of popular 1960s and 1970s works, sounds, styles and composers. I can think of a few contemporary scores with an incidental bossa nova, but it´s really irrelevant.