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Alongside composers Piero Piccioni, Riz Ortolani, and Armando Sciascia, Piero Umiliani is among the unsung heroes of soundtrack music. Incorporating designs like jazz, easy hearing/lounge, rock and roll, funk, and bossa nova to some genre generally dominated by orchestral ratings, he penned a few of the most excellent film music …

During his lifetime, Enrico Toselli’s fame produced mainly from a scandalous affair and marriage to Archduchess Luise of Austria-Tuscany. For a while the press and community overlooked the actual fact that he was an excellent concert pianist and effective composer generally of light traditional music. Toselli himself in fact capitalized …