Bruno Battisti D'Amario

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Bruno Battisti D'Amario (born 1937) is an Italian classical guitarist, teacher and composer. [1] [2] [3]

D'Amario is known for his performances on film scores by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, [4] and became Professor of Classical Guitar at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. [5] Morricone commented that D'Amario is "able to conjure up extraordinary sounds with his guitar" for his appearances on the soundtrack to the film The Good, The Bad and the Ugly . [1] He was a member of the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. [6] [7] [8]

In 2011 he published a composition inspired by the Tarot cards. [9]

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