Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino was a classically-trained musician who, after an early on career within the concert hall as well as the opera home, so when a teacher, considered composing film music in the first 1950’s. His ratings included a unexpected number of extremely visible worldwide productions, including Orson Welles’s Othello and Chimes AT NIGHTTIME, Eugene Lourie’s Gorgo, and Henry Hathaway’s Tale FROM THE Shed, starring John Wayne. Hence, he became one of the better known Italian film composers from the period — ironically, he was Sergio Leone’s initial choice to create the music to get a Fistful of Dollars but his distributor insisted how the director use a younger, much less more developed composer called Ennio Morricone, rather.