Gino Filippini

Gino Filippini (7 May 1900 – 4 April 1962) was an Italian composer, conductor and arranger.

Born in Alessandria, the son of an employee of the railways, Filippini was a child prodigy, who started studying piano at 5 years old and who made his first composition, "Fantasia funebre", aged nine. He graduated in composition and piano at the conservatory of his hometown, and after the First World War he moved to Turin where he studied composition under Luigi Perrachio. In the 1920s he was employed as a conductor at Radio Berna, in Swiss, then he worked in Germany and in Spain.

Returned to Turin, he formed one of the first Italian jazz orchestras and started composing songs, getting his first success in 1939 with "Sulla carrozzella", performed by Odoardo Spadaro. After several hits, in the 1950s he dedicated himself to arrangements for jazz groups and orchestras and to composing musical scores for films and revues.

Birth and Death Data: Born January 1, 1900 (Alessandria), Died April 4, 1962 (Rome)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1939

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, songwriter

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Recordings

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Gramophone 0BA3162 10-in. May 1939 Il valzer della povera gente Enzo Di Mola ; Orchestra M.o Dino Olivier Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble songwriter  
Columbia (U.K.) CB9320 10-in. 5/12/1939 Sulla carrozzella Carlo Buti ; Orchestra Ferruzzi Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Filippini, Gino," accessed April 29, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/101410.

Filippini, Gino. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 29, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/101410.

"Filippini, Gino." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 29 April 2024.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/101410

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