Riz (Riziero) Ortolani (September, 4th, 1931 in Pesaro, Italy) is an Italian film composer. In the early 1950s Ortolani was founder and member of a jazz band of national Italian renown. His first score he wrote for the 1962 Gualtiero Jacopetti pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and also was nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. Another world famous track was his main-title for the movie O' Cangaceiro (1970).

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