Manuel De Sica

Born February 24, 1949· Rome, Lazio, Italy

† Died December 5, 2014

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A scion of Italian cinema, Manuel De Sica grew up in Rome as the son of director Vittorio De Sica and actress María Mercader, and pursued formal studies in composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Bruno Maderna. He entered film scoring with the music for his father's 1968 picture A Place for Lovers and shortly after co-founded the band The Ancients, which performed on the popu… Read more

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