Cinema Suicide

One of the big draws to Italian Cinema is their use of atmosphere, using lush, clever, well composed soundtracks as a foundation for their images. Italy has produced a long list of brilliant composers throughout the years, and one of the most renowned and respected is Rome’s Fabio Frizzi. Fabio began his career working with famous Italian composers Franco Bixio and Vince Tempera, and went on to infamy scoring the soundtracks to Lucio Fulci’s most loved works. Cinema Suicide writer Tim Fife corresponded with Frizzi to learn about the history and the future of one of Italy’s most loved composers.

Fabio Frizzi was born in 1952 in Bologna, Italy, and grew up listening to Bach, the Baroque, and the Beatles. “I have been lucky,” Frizzi recalls, “I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first band, a quartet, and then many others until I was 19 playing Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas & The Papas, Crosby, Stills… today we’d call them “cover bands”, but we played with maniacal care on arrangements.” While his father pressed for him to attend college and become a lawyer, Fabio shopped himself around different publishing offices around Rome.

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