Carlo Martelli(I)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Born to an Italian father and English mother, Carlo Martelli was a
viola player who entered film scoring through his friendship with
Gerard Schurmann. After his successful horror film scores of the 1960s, his
serious concert scores were consistently rejected by The British
Broadcasting Corporation because they were neither atonal nor
modernist. Discouraged, Martelli gave up composition under his own name
in the 1970s and undertook some ghost-writing and orchestration chores
for others. However, by the 1980s he was encouraged to write again for
string quartets and found that his light music pieces were once again
acceptable to the BBC.
