Alessandro Cicognini was an Italian film music composer.

Cicognini was classically trained at the Milan Conservatory of Music. He composed 106 soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

s between 1936 and 1993, many of them for filmmaker Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

. His score for The Bicycle Thief (1948) was awarded Best Soundtrack of the Year. Much of his film music makes use of small ensembles and unusual instrumentation, rather than the lush orchestral scores common to film music of the mid-20th century. In 1965 he retired from film composition and became a teacher; one of his soundtracks, to the 1953 film Stazione Termini, was reused in What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay adapted from his 1991 novel of the same name...

in 1993.

Soundtracks

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (from "Stazione Termini (1953)")
• Il Compagno Don Camillo(1965)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome
  The Pigeon That Took Rome
  The Pigeon That Took Rome is a 1962 film directed and written by Melville Shavelson and starring Charlton Heston. The film was based upon the novel "The Easter Dinner", written by Donald Downes.-Plot:...
  
  (1962)
• The Last Judgement (1961 film)
  The Last Judgement (1961 film)
  The Last Judgement is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France.It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino...
  
  (1961)
• Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo (1961)
• A Breath of Scandal
  A Breath of Scandal
  A Breath of Scandal, known as Olympia in Italy, is a 1960 film adapted from Ferenc Molnár's stage play Olympia. It stars Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin and Angela Lansbury and was directed by Michael Curtiz. The film is set at the turn of the 20th century and features lush technicolor...
  
   (1960)
• It Started in Naples
  It Started in Naples
  It Started in Naples is an American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies...
  
   (1960)
• Pan, amor y... Andalucía (1959)
• The Black Orchid (1958)
• Anna di Brooklyn (1958)
• È arrivata la parigina (1958)
• Vacanze a Ischia (1957)
• Padri e figli (1957)
• Il Tetto (1956)
• Bigamo, Il (1956)
• La Fortuna di essere donna(1956)
• La Banda degli onesti(1956)
• La Finestra sul Luna Park (1956)
• Loser Takes All
  Loser Takes All
  Loser takes all is a 1955 novel by British author Graham Greene.-Plot summary:Mr. Bertram and Cary are about to get married. An unambitious assistant accountant, Bertram's plans for marriage are not particularly exciting...
  
   (1956)
• Tempo di villeggiatura (1956)
• Totò, Peppino e i... fuorilegge (1956)
• Pane, amore e... (1955)
• Don Camillo e l'onoravele Peppone (1955)
• Summertime (1955)
• Ultimi cinque minuti, Gli (1955)
• Ulysses (1955 film)
  Ulysses (1955 film)
  Ulysses is a 1955 adventure film based on Homer's poem Odyssey. The movie was made by director Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati, aided by Mario Bava ....
  
  
• L'Arte di arrangiarsi, L' (1955)
• Siamo uomini o caporali (1955)
• Peccato che sia una canaglia (1954)
• L'Oro di Napoli (1954)
• Pane, amore e gelosia
  Pane, amore e gelosia
  Bread, Love and Jealousy , Known as Frisky in USA is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It is the second part of the Italian trilogy, followed by Scandal in Sorrento-Overview and response:...
  
   (1954)
• Tempi nostri (1954)
• Graziella (1954)
  • Pane, amore e fantasia
    Pane, Amore e Fantasia
    Bread, Love and Dreams is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award.-Plot summary:...
    
     (1953)
• Siamo donne
  Siamo donne
  We, the Women is a 1953 Italian pormanteau film divided into five segments and directed by five different directors. Four of these segments focus upon alleged events in the private lives of the film actresses Alida Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda, and Anna Magnani...
  
   (1953)
• Le Retour de Don Camillo, Le (1953)
• Stazione Termini (1953)
• Eroi della domenica, Gli (1953)
• Wanda la peccatrice (1952)
• Two Cents Worth of Hope
  Two Cents Worth of Hope
  Two Cents Worth of Hope is a 1952 film directed by Renato Castellani.It shared the Grand Prix prize with the film Othello at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...
  
   (1952)
• Il Piccolo mondo di Don Camillo
  Don Camillo
  Don Camillo is the main character created by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi , and is based on the historical Roman Catholic priest, WW II partisan and detainee of the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, Don Camillo Valota . Don Camillo is one of two protagonists,...
  
   (1952)
• Buongiorno, elefante! (1952)
• Umberto D. (1952)
• Altri tempi (1952)
• Moglie per una notte (1952)
• Il Segreto delle tre punte (1952)
• Stormbound (1951)
• Guardie e ladri
  Guardie e ladri
  Cops and Robbers is a 1951 Italian cult comedy film directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli. It stars a famous comedian Totó, and it was cinematographied by future film director Mario Bava. Its style is close to Italian neorealism. It had troubles with censorship because its view of clumsy police...
  
   (1951)
• Sette nani alla riscossa, I (1951)
• Cameriera bella presenza offresi... (1951)
• Miracolo a Milano (1951)
• Prima comunione (1950)
• Domani è troppo tardi (1950)
• Il Ladro di Venezia (1950)
• Fiamma che non si spegne (1949)
• Il Grido della terra (1949)
• Il Conte Ugolino (1949)
• Ho sognato il paradiso (1949)
• Paolo e Francesca (1949)
• Lo Sparviero del Nilo (1949)
• Vogliamoci bene (1949)
• Ladri di biciclette (1948)
• Il Cavaliere misterioso (1948)
• I Miserabili (1948)
• Il Cavaliere del sogno(1947)
• Ultimo amore (1947)
• Il Duomo di Milano (1947)
• Cronaca nera (1947)
• Avventure di Pinocchio, Le (1947)
• Sciuscià (1946)
• Sua strada, La (1946)
• Sconosciuto di San Marino, Lo (1946)
• Due lettere anonime (1945)
• Resa di Titì, La (1945)
• Nessuno torna indietro (1945)
• Tristi amori (1943)
• Statua vivente, La (1943)
• Nostro prossimo, Il (1943)
• Quattro passi fra le nuvole (1942)
• Pastor Angelicus (1942)
• Quarta pagina (1942)
• La Maestrina (1942)
• Primo amore (1941)
• La corona di ferro (1941)
• Ridi pagliaccio! (1941)
• Giuliano de' Medici (1941)
• Senza cielo (1940)
• Don Pasquale (1940)
• Una Romantica avventura (1940)
• La Peccatrice (1940)
• Oltre l'amore (1940)
• La Nascita di Salomè (1940)
• Centomila dollari (1940)
• Un'aAvventura di Salvator Rosa (1939)
• Retroscena (1939)
• Documento, Il (1939)
• Cavalleria rusticana (1939)
• Moglie in pericolo, Una (1939)
• Grandi magazzini, I (1939)
• Castelli in aria (1939)
• Napoli che non muore (1939)
• Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
• Due madri, Le (1938)
• Il Corsaro nero(1937)
• I Due misantropi (1937) (not mentioned in the title)
• I Due sergenti (1936) (not mentioned in the title)