---
name: "Joseph Vitarelli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-vitarelli"
fi1m_id: "joseph-vitarelli"
imdb_id: "nm0899958"
tmdb_id: 55440
wikidata_id: "Q1460401"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T02:18:27.878533+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joseph Vitarelli

## Identity

Joseph Vitarelli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joseph-vitarelli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joseph-vitarelli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0899958
- **TMDB ID:** 55440
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1460401
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1460401, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899958/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55440

Composer. Born 1 January 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1961
- **Active:** 1994–2008
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1460401, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899958/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55440

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*John Adams*](https://film.one/tv/john-adams.md) (81)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Last Seduction*](https://film.one/film/the-last-seduction.md) (81)

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## Biography

Joseph Vitarelli is an American composer for film and television. He is known for his score to the HBO miniseries *John Adams* (2008), on which he collaborated with Rob Lane, and for the film *The Last Seduction* (1994).

His other credits include *My Architect* (2003), *Kit Kittredge: An American Girl* (2008), *She's So Lovely* (1997), *A Dog Year* (2009), *The Pentagon Wars* (1998), *Kissing a Fool* (1998), *How I Got Into College* (1989) and *Flag Day* (2021). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for the score to the miniseries *Revelations* (2005) and has worked on several other HBO productions.

*Sources: imdb.com, scoringsessions.com, allmusic.com, soundtracktracklist.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *John Adams* (2008), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/john-adams.md)
- *The Last Seduction* (1994), Fi1m 81, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-seduction.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Flag Day* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Soul of a People: Writing America's Story* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *A Dog Year* (2009), Music
- *Kit Kittredge: An American Girl* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *John Adams* (2008), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/john-adams.md)
- *A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Laughter on the 23rd Floor* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Boycott* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Nobody's Baby* (2001), Music
- *The Sports Pages* (2001), Music
- *Safety Patrol!* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Pentagon Wars* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Kissing a Fool* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Bella Mafia* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *First Time Felon* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *She's So Lovely* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Commandments* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *The Substance of Fire* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Evil Has a Face* (1996), Music
- *Let It Be Me* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Nothing But the Truth* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Seduction* (1994), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-seduction.md)
- *Papakolea: A Story of Hawaiian Land* (1992), Music
- *Big Man on Campus* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *How I Got Into College* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The Case of the Missing Time Capsule* (1989), Music

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