The Godfather: Paramount 1972.

Nino Rota, was born in Milan in 1911 and died in Rome in 1979. In 1919 he began studying the piano with his mother, and at the age of eight he started to compose. He entered the Milan Conservatory in 1923. Later, in Rome, he received a diploma in composition at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in 1930.

In 1937 joined the Bari Conservatory as a teacher of harmony and composition. There, Rota worked closely with my first guitar teacher, Maestro Vincenzo Calzolaro who also worked at the Bari music Conservatory. Calsolaro made the guitar transcription for this piece in 1973 and presented it to me when I was 12.

Rota owed his international renown largely to his scores for the cinema, many of them composed for the films of Federico Fellini.

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Hear "The Godfather" 3:05, performed by Renato Bellucci: CD "Guitar Celebration" 1990

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