Francesco De Masi has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 16 June 2014. Francesco De Masi's music has been featured on 12 episodes.

Francesco De Masi (1930 - 2005) was born in Rome and studied Composition at the Neapolitan Conservatory of music.

Besides a successful career with orchestras and conducting (winning RAI'S "Young conductors" award in 1968), he started writing film music in 1955, mostly for Italian genre cinema - Spy films, Sword & sandal films and spaghetti westerns. As directors moved on to other genres in the 70s and 80s, he wrote for Gialli, Poliziotti/Crime films, and cheap, Hollywood-imitating B-movie actioners.

Alongside with…