Marcello Giombini

Marcello Giombini (1928-2003) was an Italian composer and organist, born in Rome, who died in Assisi. He wrote scores for Italian westerns, peplum and horror films from the 1960s into the 1980s, and he is best remembered for the music of Sabata (1969). He also brought beat music into Catholic religious song and made electronic records. Giombini worked as a church organist in Rome as a young man. His beat mass La Messa dei Giovani was first performed in Rome in April 1966 with I Barrittas, Angel and the Brains and The Bumpers, and was released on Ariel.