Biography
Franco Piersanti (born 12 January 1950) is an Italian composer and conductor.
Born in Rome, Piersanti graduated in double bass at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied composition under the guidance of Armando Renzi and conducting under Franco Ferrara and Piero Bellugi. He later played bass in the RAI Symphony Orchestra.
During his studies he knew the composer Nino Rota, and he became his assistant between 1975 and 1977. In 1976 he debuted as film composer scoring the Nanni Moretti's first film, Io sono un autarchico and then started a long collaboration with him that continued with Moretti's Habemus Papam (2011).Piersanti is also well known for his long collaboration with the director Gianni Amelio, for whom he scored seven movies between 1982 and 2006, including The Stolen Children (1992) and Lamerica (1994), for which he won two David di Donatello for Best Score.His soundtracks include Love and Fear (1988), The Second Time (1995), Inspector Montalbano (1999), The Best Day of My Life (2002), The Beast in the Heart (2005), My Brother is an Only Child (2007) and Fort Apache Napoli (2009).
Filmography
all 76
Movies 74
TV Shows 2
self 1
A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
Dry (2022)
Ennio (2022)
Three Floors (2021)
A Rose in Winter (2020)
Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax (2019)
Ordinary Happiness (2019)
Tenderness (2017)
The Stuff of Dreams (2016)
L'età d'oro (2016)
Lea (2015)
Those Happy Years (2013)
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Cha cha cha (2013)
Meglio se stai zitta (2013)
Come Tex nessuno mai (2012)
Me and You (2012)
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
The First Man (2011)
Terraferma (2011)
We Have a Pope (2011)
Eroi per caso (2011)
Eroi per caso (2011)
La nostra vita (2010)
Il prossimo tuo (2009)
Fort Apache Napoli (2009)
Wild Blood (2008)
A Whole Life Ahead (2008)
My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Mirush (2007)
The Missing Star (2006)
The Caiman (2006)
Face Addict (2005)
An Italian Romance (2004)
The Keys to the House (2004)
I ragazzi della via Pál (2003)
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea (2003)
Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand (2003)
Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
Corto Maltese: Les hommes Léopards (2002)
Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane (2002)
Rosa and Cornelia (2000)
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)
The Way We Laughed (1998)
Notes of Love (1998)
Open Sea (1998)
Bakunin's Son (1997)
Marianna Ucrìa (1997)
An Eyewitness Account (1997)
Il Grande Fausto (1995)
The Second Time (1995)
Without Evidence (1995)
Law of Courage (1994)
The Pack (1994)
Lamerica (1994)
The Secret of the Old Woods (1993)
On My Own (1993)
Time for... (1993)
Mille bolle blu (1993)
The Stolen Children (1992)
Open Doors (1990)
Woman in the Moon (1989)
The Flavor of Corn (1989)
Bankomatt (1989)
The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Love and Fear (1988)
Bizarre (1987)
The Ferrywoman (1986)
Mother Ebe (1985)
Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold (1984)
Bianca (1984)
Blow to the Heart (1982)
Blue Island (1982)
Sweet Dreams (1981)
Ecce Bombo (1978)
I Am Self-Sufficient (1976)
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GenderMale
Birthday1950-01-12 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
CitizenshipsItaly
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