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Francesco De Masi
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Italian conductor and film score composer
Film & TV
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for
- Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? — Self2006
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1930-01-11
- Active to
- 2005-11-06
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 39,080
- Total plays
- 290,625
Tags
Soundtrackitalianjazzcomposerspaghetti western
Francesco De Masi (1930 - 2005) was born in Rome and studied Composition at the Neapolitan Conservatory of music. Besides a successful career with orchestras and conducting (winning RAI'S "Young conductors" award in 1968), he started writing film music in 1955, mostly for Italian genre cinema - Spy films, Sword & sandal films and spaghetti westerns. As directors moved on to other genres in the 70s and 80s, he wrote for Gialli, Poliziotti/Crime films, and lower budget, Hollywood-imitating B-movi
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Educated at
- San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Music
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Field of work
- film score
- Official website
- www.francescodemasi.it
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- date of birth
- 1930-11-11
- date of death
- 2005-11-06
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- pseudonym
- Frank De Masi
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Francesco De Masi
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