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Date of Birth
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06-December-1921
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Place of Birth
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Turin
(Province of Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
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Nationality
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Italy, Kingdom of Italy
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Also know as
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P. Morgan, Piero Morgan, P. Piccioni, Peter Piccioni, Piero Morgan, Pero Piccioni, Peter Piccioni, P. Morgan, Piero Morgan, Peter Piccioni, P. Piccioni, P. Morgan, P. Morgan, Piero Morgan, P. Piccioni, Peter Piccioni
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Profession
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Film Score Composer, Organist, Pianist, Conductor, Lawyer, Composer, Music Arranger
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Piero Piccioni was an Italian lawyer turned major film score composer.
A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. His mother’s maiden name was Marengo, hence his pseudonym Piero Morgan which he adopted until 1957. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his historic “013†Big Band, to return on air only after the liberation of Italy in 1944. His unforgettable “013â€, was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of fascism.
His father, Attilio Piccioni, would frequently take him to hear concerts at the E.I.A.R. Radio Studios in Florence. He listened to jazz throughout his childhood. Without attending studies at the Conservatoire Academy of Music, Piero Piccioni became an extremely talented self-taught musician.
He was deeply influenced in his use of jazz by 20th-century classical composers and American cinematography. Amongst his favourite directors were Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford and Alex North. He began writing songs of his own and was soon able to get some of his works published by Carisch editions. Piero Piccioni came into contact with the movie world in Rome during the fifties, when he was a practicing lawyer and was soon securing movie rights for Italian distributors such as Titanus and De Laurentiis. During that time, Michelangelo Antonioni had called Piero to score a documentary film directed by Luigi Polidoro, one of his apprentices.
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