Bruno Nicolai
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Bruno Nicolai
| image = File:Bruno Nicolai 73.jpg
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| birth_date = 26 May 1926
| birth_place = Rome, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|08|16|1926|05|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| occupation = Film composer
| genre = Film score
}}
Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director, conductor, pianist and musical editor, most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.{{cite web|title=Bruno Nicolai Filmography|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/104479/Bruno-Nicolai/filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208134314/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/104479/Bruno-Nicolai/filmography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2015|archive-date=2015-12-08}}
While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship, with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone. Morricone noted in an interview discussing the Dollars Trilogy, "I chose a great musician and friend to be my conductor: Bruno Nicolai, who conducted almost every score of mine from that point on until 1974."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1veFDwAAQBAJ|last1=De Rosa|first1=Alessandro |title=Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words |isbn=978-0-19-068103-6|year=2019|page=27|publisher=Oxford University Press }} Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote many scores for director Jesús Franco.
His work was featured in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill: Volume 2 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Selected filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| style="width: 33px;" | Year
! style="width: 350px;" | Film ! style="width: 250px;" | Directed by ! style="width: 225px;" | Notes ! style="width: 300px;" | Latest CD / Digital Release |
|---|
| rowspan="3" | 1964
| | |
| Mondo Inferno
| with Marco Vicario | Beat Records / BCM9587 / 2019 |
| Vita Di Michelangelo
| | Kronos Records / KRONGOLD007 / 2014 |
| rowspan="1" | 1965
| | GDM / CD CLUB 7009 / 2002 |
| rowspan="7" | 1966
| | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3998920 / 2011 |
| The Spy with Ten Faces
| | Quartet Records / QR337 / 2018 |
| Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang
| | Quartet Records / QR337 / 2018 |
| Django Shoots First
| | GDM / GDM 4149 / 2012 |
| Special Mission Lady Chaplin
| | Digitmovies / CDDM082 / 2007 |
| The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
| | Digitmovies / CDDM047 / 2006 |
| El Cisco
| | Digitmovies / CDDM073 / 2006 |
| rowspan="3" | 1967
| | GDM / CD CLUB 7016 / 2003 |
| Lucky, the Inscrutable
| | Quartet Records / QR337 / 2018 |
| Dirty Heroes
| | Beat Records / CDCR 86 / 2009 |
| rowspan="5" | 1968
| as George Finley | Digitmovies / CDDM036 / 2005 |
| Run, Man, Run
| | Digitmovies / CDDM095 / 2007 |
| Roma come Chicago
| a.k.a. Bandits in Rome | Quartet Records / QR441 / 2021 |
| Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankhamen
| as Roger Rockefeller | Digitmovies / CDDM079 / 2007 |
| The Last Mercenary
| as Dieter Müller | Beat Records / CDCR 32 / 1996 |
| rowspan="8" | 1969
| 99 Women | | Digitmovies / CDDM034 / 2005 |
| Marquis de Sade: Justine
| | Digitmovies / CDDM268 / 2014 |
| Desert Assault
| Mino Loy | | Digitmovies / CDDM049 / 2006 |
| Carnal Circuit
| a.k.a. Femmine Insaziabili | Quartet Records / QR463 / 2021 |
| Flashback
| | |
| Geminus
| | Edipan / PANCD2506 / 2014 |
| Zenabel
| | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3997610 / 2006 |
| {{ill|Love Birds - Una strana voglia d'amare|it}}
| | GDM / GDM 4106 / 2007 |
| rowspan="10" | 1970
| Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion | | Digitmovies / CDDM030 / 2005 |
| Land Raiders
| | Digitmovies / CDDM190 / 2011 |
| Nightmares Come At Night
| | Digitmovies / CDDM117 / 2008 |
| Arizona Colt Returns
| | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3998010 / 2007 |
| The Bloody Judge
| | Lucertola Media / LMCD 011 / 1998 |
| Count Dracula
| | Digitmovies / CDDM319 / 2022 |
| Adiós, Sabata
| | Quartet Records / QR198 / 2015 |
| Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay
| as Anthony Ascott | Beat Records / CDCR 39 / 2005 |
| Apocalypse Joe
| | Beat Records / CDCR 45 / 1998 |
| Cloud of Dust... Cry of Death... Sartana Is Coming
| | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3997910 / 2007 |
| rowspan="6" | 1971
| | Digitmovies / CDDM159 / 2010 |
| And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave
| as John Wood | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3998010 / 2007 |
| The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
| | Digitmovies / CDDM028 / 2004 |
| The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
| | Digitmovies / CDDM040 / 2005 |
| Dead Men Ride
| | GDM / GDM 4150 / 2012 |
| Civilta Del Mediterraneo
| | | Kronos Records / KRONGOLD039 / 2021 |
| rowspan="11" | 1972
| | Digitmovies / DGST025 / 2017 |
| All the Colors of the Dark
| | Digitmovies / CDDM019 / 2004 |
| His Name Was Holy Ghost
| as Anthony Ascott | Beat Records / CDCR 127 / 2014 |
| The French Sex Murders
| | |
| God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth
| as John Wood | |
| A Virgin Among the Living Dead
| | GDM / GDM 4150 / 2012 |
| Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
| | Digitmovies / CDDM016 / 2004 |
| The Case of the Bloody Iris
| | Digitmovies / CDDM013 / 2004 |
| My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow
| as John Wood | |
| The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
| | Cam Sugar / CS009RSD / 2022 |
| Ubalda, All Naked and Warm
| | Digitmovies / CDDM055 / 2006 |
| rowspan="7" | 1973
| | Edipan / PAN CD 2504 / 1997 |
| A Full Day's Work
| | GDM / GDM 2019 / 2019 |
| Man Called Invincible
| | Beat Records / CDCR 117 / 2012 |
| Forbidden to Know
| | Digitmovies / CDDM132 / 2009 |
| The Bloody Vultures of Alaska
| | |
| {{ill|Eleonora (miniseries)|lt=Eleonora|it|Eleonora (miniserie televisiva)}}
| | Edipan / PAN CD 2507 / 2014 |
| My Name Is Shanghai Joe
| | GDM / GDM 4174 / 2014 |
| rowspan="1" | 1974
| | Digitmovies / CDDM320 / 2023 |
| rowspan="3" | 1975
| Eyeball | | Quartet Records / QR554 / 2024 |
| Manhunt in the City
| | Digitmovies / CDDM100 / 2007 |
| Then, The Train
| | CAM / Digital / 2025 |
| rowspan="1" | 1977
| | Kronos Records / KRONGOLD012 / 2015 |
| rowspan="1" | 1979
| Caligula | as Paul Clemente | Cimmerian Records / CRCD023 / 2017 |
| rowspan="1" | 1982
| | |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0006214}}
- [http://brunonicolai.homestead.com/nicolai.html Bruno Nicolai tribute site]
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Category:Italian film score composers
Category:Italian male film score composers
Category:Spaghetti Western composers
Category:Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
Category:20th-century Italian composers
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Category:20th-century Italian male musicians
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