Amedeo Escobar

{{short description|Italian composer}}

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| name = Amedeo Escobar

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| birth_date = 14 August 1888

| birth_place = Pergola, Marche, Italy

| death_date = 16 November 1973

| death_place = Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy

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| occupation = Composer

| yearsactive = 1931–1952 (film)

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Amedeo Escobar (1888–1973) was an Italian composer of film scores.Frayling p.32 He attended the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome where he studied harmony, composition and cello under Luigi Forino.{{Cite web |title=Escobar, Amedeo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/amedeo-escobar_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Treccani |language=it |quote=Studiò armonia e composizione e si diplomò in violoncello presso l'Accademia di S. Cecilia di Roma con L. Forino. |trans-quote=He studied harmony and composition and graduated in cello at the Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome with L. Forino.}}