Piero Piccioni (born with Turin the December 6th 1921, died with Rome the July 23rd 2004) is an Italian type-setter of film musics.

In love with Jazz as of the childhood and autodidact of the piano, he was member of the Big Band " 013" , first group of jazz ever heard in Italy, as of 1938. Its first parts and songs were noticed then published by the Carish editions. Deeply influenced by the type-setters of the 20th century and the American cinema (its preferences went to Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford and Alex North, for their use of the jazz), it composed nearly 300 works for the radio, television and the orchestras.

It establishes contacts with the cinema world during the years 1950. Michelangelo Antonioni asked him to write the music for the documentary one of one of its pupils, Luigi Polidoro. Its first true film music was for It Mondo Condanna (1952) of Gianni Franciolini. Piccioni maintained a very close relation with realizers like Francesco Rosi and Alberto Sordi. Its fame grows and of many realizers asked it: Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Tinto Arm or Dino Risi. It gained many prices, and its very particular mixing Jazz, Bossanova, contemporary Orchestre and Traditional style marked many of other type-setters.

It appeared sometimes under the pseudonym of Piero Morgan .

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