Italian composer, arranger, conductor and violinist. Born: February 22nd, 1909 in Genoa, Italy. Died: August 21st, 1987 in Gavi, Italy. Angelo Francesco Lavagnino was born into a family with musicians on both sides in 1909, and, attracted to the sight and sounds of a live theater orchestra, he first discovered film music as a boy during the silent era. He later attended the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, where he studied composition under Renzo Bossi. He graduated in the early '30s and, in the years that followed, he composed several symphonies, a large body of chamber music, a small group of symphonic poems, and one opera. He was also a teacher at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena between the ages of 32-53. Lavagnino began composing music for films in the early '50s, and by the time he'd retired two decades later, had amassed credits for some 300 movies, including Orson Welles' Othello and Chimes at Midnight, the science fiction thriller Gorgo, the fantasy film Lost Continent, the adventure yarn Legend of the Lost, and costume epics such as The Last Days of Pompeii (1960). Lavagnino had a special gift for melody and a talent for orchestration that manifested themselves in the best of those scores, particularly Gorgo -- whose folk-based soundtrack is often referred to as the prettiest score ever to grace a dinosaur movie -- and Legend of the Lost. Lavagnino was very nearly the choice of Sergio Leone to score A Fistful of Dollars -- having composed the music for the director's The Last Days of Pompeii and The Colossus of Rhodes. Leone was favorably disposed toward him, but the insistence of Leone's distributor that he meet with Ennio Morricone led to the revelation that they had attended grammar school together, so the director gave the assignment to Morricone. Despite losing that job, Lavagnino remained one of the busiest screen composers in England, and continued working until the mid-'70s on films that included his share of spaghetti Westerns. He died August 21, 1987.
2024
Cam Sugar
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2024
Cam Sugar
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2024
Cam Sugar
5xFile, FLAC, Album, RE, RM
2024
Cam Sugar
9xFile, FLAC
2024
Cam Sugar
13xFile, MP3, Album, RM, VBR
2024
Alhambra
CD, Album, Ltd, RM
2023
Alhambra
CD, Album, Comp, Ltd
2022
Label Panthéon, Mercury, Universal Music France
LP, Ltd, Num
2021
Not On Label
17xFile, MP3, Album, RE, RM, VBR
2020
Quartet Records
2xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd
2019
Kronos Records
CD, Album, Ltd, RM
2019
Kronos Records
CD, Album, Ltd, RM
2019
Quartet Records
CD, Ltd
2019
Alhambra
CD, Album, Comp, Ltd
2018
Alhambra
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2018
Quartet Records
CD, Album, Ltd
2018
Alhambra
CD, Album, Comp, Mono, Ltd
2017
Alhambra
CD, Album, Ltd
2017
Alhambra
CD, Album, Comp, Ltd
2016
Alhambra
CD, Album, Ltd
2016
Digitmovies
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2016
Alhambra
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2016
Alhambra
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2015
Digitmovies
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2015
Alhambra
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2014
Alhambra
CD, Album, Ltd, RM
2014
2012
GDM
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2012
GDM, Legend (4)
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2012
Alhambra
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2011
Digitmovies
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2011
Alhambra
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2010
GDM
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2010
Quartet Records
CD, Album, Ltd, RM
2010
Digitmovies
2xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, RM
2010
GDM
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2010
Digitmovies
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2010
Kritzerland
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2009
Saimel Bandas Sonoras
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2009
GDM
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2009
Digitmovies
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2009
Digitmovies
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2008
Digitmovies
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2008
GDM
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2008
GDM
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2008
Alhambra
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2007
Hexacord
CD, Album, Ltd
2007
Digitmovies
2xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, RM
2007
GDM
CD, Album, Ltd, RM
2006
Saimel Bandas Sonoras
CD, Comp
1998
CAM
CD, Comp
1997
1997
1996
Tsunami (2)
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1995
Beat Records Company
CD, Album, Comp
1993
1991
Cinevox Record
CD, Comp
1991
CAM
CD, Album, Num, S/Edition
1988
1984
1983
Polydor
LP, Album, Comp, RE
1983
1977
C.A.M. Recording, CAM
LP, Comp, Promo
1976
1971
1970
CAM
10", Promo
1969
CAM
7"
1969
Major Records (7)
LP
1969
1968
1968
1967
1967
1966
Globe (9)
7"
1966
Polydor
7", Single
1966
1965
CAM
7"
1965
1965
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1963
CAM
7", EP
1963
Cinefox
7"
1963
1963
1963
1963
1962
CAM
7"
1962
CAM
7", Single
1962
Music
10"
1962
CAM
7"
1961
Publidisco Italiana
Flexi, 7", S/Sided, Promo
1961
RCA
7", EP
1961
RCA
7", EP
1961
RCA
7", EP, Mono
1961
1960
RCA Italiana, RCA
7", EP, Mono
1959
Fonit
10"
1959
Editrice Italiana Audiovisivi, Unitalia Film
7", EP, Promo
1959
1959
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