Cinema Paradiso: “Love Theme”

Composer: MORRICONE, Ennio
  • Cinema Paradiso (dir. Giuseppe Tornatore) came out in 1988, and the Morricones wrote the score in 1988.1
    • The film won an Academy Award for “Best Foreign Language Film” in 1989.2
  • Morricone collaborated with his son Andrea Morricone to compose the score to Cinema Paradiso3 (the film itself explores the relationship between a child and his father figure, a projectionist at an old movie theater.)4
    • It was actually Andrea Morricone who composed the film’s love theme.5

Sources

  1.  Sergio Miceli, “Morricone, Ennio,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044104. 
  2.  James M. Keller, “Morricone, Ennio and Andrea: Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso,” San Francisco Symphony (September 2018), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-Listen-Learn/Read-Program-Notes/Program-Notes/Ennio-and-Andrea-Morricone-Love-Theme-from-Cinema.aspx. 
  3.  “Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso,” Classic FM (August 23, 2014), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/morricone/music/cinema-paradiso/. 
  4.  “Cinema Paradiso (1988),” IMDb, accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/.
  5.  Keller, “Morricone, Ennio and Andrea: Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso,” San Francisco Symphony.

Cut IDs

20466, 22557