Italo film music composer Piero Piccioni, whose music graced the films of Italy’s top directors, died in Rome Friday of unknown causes. He was 82. Piccioni, who until the 1950s used the pseudonym ...

Piero Piccioni, 82, Italian composer who wrote music for more than 100 motion pictures including Dino Risi’s 1957 comedy “Poor But Handsome,” died Friday in his Rome apartment of unspecified causes.

There are few film composers who have created music as iconic as Ennio Morricone. Some of his most memorable soundtracks were recorded at Forum Studios, the recording studio he co-founded in 1969 ...

While late Italian composer Piero Piccioni still feels like a relative underdog in the soundtrack world, that's slowly but surely been changing. Thanks to an increasingly long list of reissues in ...

Piero Piccioni was a prolific Italian film composer in dazzling styles ranging from lounge to avant-garde. Piero Piccioni, film composer: born Turin 6 December 1921; died Rome 23 July 2004. Piero ...

While Piero Piccioni penned more than 300 soundtracks in his lifetime, the Italian Maestro effectively kicked off his prolific career in cinema with Il Mondo di Notte. Released in 1959, the album ...