Carlo Savina

Carlo Savina (1919-2002) was an Italian composer and conductor, born in Turin and active mainly in film music. Trained at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, he led his own orchestra in radio after the war and from 1950 worked on more than 200 films as composer, arranger, conductor or music director. He is best known as the conductor of Nino Rota's scores, including The Godfather and Fellini's Amarcord. Savina was the son of the first clarinettist of the EIAR radio orchestra.