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Stelvio Cipriani (born 20 August 1937 in Rome), is an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks.〔(The New York Times )〕 Though not coming from a musical background, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church's organ. His priest gave him his first music lessons and encouraged Cipriani and his family. Cipriani passed his examinations and studied at Santa Cecilia Conservatory from the age of 14, then played on cruise ship bands,〔(Movie Music Italiano | The Home Of Italian Movie Music )〕 that enabled him to meet Dave Brubeck. Upon return to Italy he accompanied Rita Pavone on piano.〔(Stelvio Cipriani - Biography )〕 His first soundtrack was the spaghetti western ''The Bounty Killer'' (1966), followed by a well known score for ''The Stranger Returns'' (also known as ''A Man, a Horse, a Gun'' and ''Shoot First, Laugh Last'') (1967) starring Tony Anthony. Cipriani later composed other spaghetti western scores with Anthony, together with many popular poliziottesco soundtracks. Cipriani became prolific in the Italian film world and was awarded a Nastro d'Argento for Best Score for ''The Anonymous Venetian'' (1970). One of Cipriani's most famous scores is from the 1973 film ''La polizia sta a guardare'' (''The Great Kidnapping''). The main theme was recycled by Cipriani in 1977 for the score to ''Tentacoli'', and was brought to the public's attention again in 2007 when it was featured in Quentin Tarantino's ''Death Proof''. Cipriani's scores for the films of the "''La Polizia...''" series were different arrangements over the same theme. Some of those themes were used in the soundtrack of the couple Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's first feature ''Amer''. In a 2007 interview, Cipriani said that he had composed music for Pope John Paul II and was currently working with Pope Benedict XVI.〔 ==Selected filmography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stelvio Cipriani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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