Gianni Ferrio

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Gianni Ferrio
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Born (1924-11-15)15 November 1924
Vicenza, Italy
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Rome, Italy

Gianni Ferrio (15 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger.

Life and career

Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at conservatories of Vicenza and Venice.[1] He started working at the end of the fifties, and was active as a composer of film scores such as Wanted (1967), Alive or Preferably Dead (1969), Io, Emmanuelle (1969), A Bullet for Sandoval (1969), The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971), Death Walks at Midnight (1972) and Tony Arzenta (1973).[1] His piece "One Silver Dollar", the main theme to Giorgio Ferroni's Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965), was later included in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.[2]

He was also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed, among others, the hit song "Parole parole", and wrote arrangements and orchestrations for numerous of her songs and albums.[3][4] The last collaboration with Mina was for her 2012 album 12 (American Song Book), for which Ferrio traditionally provided the string arrangements.

He was the official conductor for Sanremo Music Festival in 1959 and 1962 and for the Eurovision Song Contest 1965.[5] He also took part, as conductor, in several important Italian TV-shows.[1]

Ferrio was married to ballerina and film actress Alba Arnova.[6]

Selected filmography

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