Carlo Innocenzi(1899-1962)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
An all-round composer of songs, film scores and television shows, Carlo
Innocenzi was born in Monteleone di Spoleto in 1899. He married his
lyricist Marcella Rivi (who wrote the words for many of his hit songs
including "Il Primo Amore", "Prigoniero di un Sogno", "Addio Sogni di
Gloria", "Bocca Desiderata" and "Tu M'Incatenerai".) Innocenzi's work
for the cinema began in 1938 and covered a huge number of features,
documentaries and several re-scores of Hollywood movies for Italian
release. From 1958 he began an exhausting period scoring the "peplum"
series, and was still doing ten Hercules epics a year at 62, when his
untimely death occurred in 1962. Such was the quality of his symphonic
music that several of his cues continued to be used in a number of
subsequent Italian epics. In his honour the local musicians in his home
town of Monteleone di Spoleto have formed the ensemble Corpo Bandistico
"Carlo Innocenzi." As an additional commemoration the location of
their headquarters is now called the Piazza Carlo Innocenzi.
