Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet
player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961,
Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as
well as over 100 classical works.
Bruno Nicolai (1926, Rome - 1991, Rome) was an Italian composer, conductor and keyboardist (organ, piano). Notably the
composer and director of numerous film and television scores. He also
served as musical director for other composers' film scores, prevalently
those of Ennio Morricone, Carlo Rustichelli and Luis Enriquez Bacalov.
Nicolai studied piano, organ and composition at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, studying piano under Aldo Mantia, and composition and organ under Goffredo Petrassi. Whilst at the conservatory, he met fellow student Ennio Morricone who also studied under Petrassi. A friendship began that would last many years.
Throughout
the 60's and 70's, Nicolai scored a number of films, working several
times with directors such as Jess Franco, Tinto Brass and Alberto De
Martino for their giallo and exploitation films. During this time, he
also composed library music, primarily for his own labels Gemelli and
Edi-Pan, but also for other labels like RCA. His big break came in 1965,
when he was musical supervisor for the Sergio Leone film "For a Few
Dollars More", scored by Ennio Morricone. In 1966, he reprised this role
for "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Nicolai's last score was for the
1988 TV series "La coscienza di Zeno", directed by Sandro Bolchi.
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