Prolific and innovative Italian film composer and orchestrator, a graduate of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. In addition to film scores and jazz, he also wrote symphonic and chamber music. Nascimbene invented 'Mixerama', a precursor of the sampler, which allowed him to integrate music with natural, human and artificially-created sounds. He was the first Italian composer to write original music for Hollywood productions, beginning with
The Barefoot Contessa (1954).