Riz ortolani biography for kids
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Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March – 23 January ) was an Italian film music composer.
Ortolani was born in Pesaro, Italy in In the early s he founded his own jazz grupp. In Ortolani wrote his first film score for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's pseudo-documentary "Mondo cane", whose main title-song "More" earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of "Mondo cane" led Ortolani to score films in UK and in the United States such as "The 7th Dawn" (), "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" (), "The Glory Guys" () and "The Spy with a Cold Nose" (). Another renowned track was his main-title for the movie "O Cangaceiro" ().
Ortolani scored all or parts of over films, including German westerns like "Apache's Last Battle" (), and a long series of Italian giallos, spaghetti westerns, Eurospy, exploitation and mondo films. Notable films
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Riz Ortolani
His movie career started in with the soundtrack for the Mondo Cane documentary. The main song in the movie, More, sung by Katyna Ranieri (his wife), resulted in an Oscar Nomination in as “Best Theme Song” and won the Grammy Award as “Best Instrumental Theme”. More went on to be recorded by over a thousand different artists and is one of the most covered songs in music history. Ortolani went on to score many movies for the Hollywood movie studios working, with directors like Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi, Franco Zeffirelli, Terence Young, and Edward Dmytryk, as well as having long and fruitful artistic associations in Italy with Damiano Damiani and Pupi Avati. His scores include from Mondo Cane, The Easy Life, Anzio, Farewell Africa, The Yellow Rolls Royce, Women of the World, Valachi Papers, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Ma Quando Arrivano Le Ragazze, La Rivincita di Natale, Il Papà di Giovanna and Una Sconfinata Giovinezza.
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Riz Ortolani: Composer who wrote for over films and whose work was championed by Quentin Tarantino
The film composer Riz Ortolani might have only been half as prolific as his more illustrious fellow Italian, Ennio Morricone, but he still amassed over scores for directors ranging from Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi and Anthony Asquith to Tinto Brass and Quentin Tarantino. Most famously, with Nino Oliviero, he wrote and arranged the haunting theme for Mondo Cane, the shockumentary directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi.
Originating the mondo genre of shocking, pseudo-cinéma vérité and introducing the begrepp "mondo" (the Italian noun for "world") into pop culture, Mondo Cane became a succès dem scandale at the Cannes rulle Festival in and an unlikely box-office draw in US drive-ins and grindhouse theatres.
Though at odds with the graphic travelogue footage, the beautiful melody won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Theme in It was turned into a popular song, "Ti Gua