Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi

  • Birthday: 1965-11-23
  • Place of birth: Torino, Italy

Biography

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music. Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I'm Still Here, Nomadland, the TV miniseries Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), for which he won the Grolla d'oro. His music was used as the score for the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning films Nomadland and The Father. He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013. On 1 March 2019, Einaudi announced a seven-part project named Seven Days Walking, which was released over the course of seven months in 2019. Einaudi was born in Turin, Piedmont. His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher working with authors including Italo Calvino and Primo Levi, and founder of Giulio Einaudi Editore, while his paternal grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. His mother, Renata Aldrovandi, played the piano to him as a child. Her father, Waldo Aldrovandi, was a pianist, opera conductor, and composer who emigrated to Australia after World War II. Einaudi started composing his own music as a teenager, first writing by playing a folk guitar. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, obtaining a diploma in composition in 1982. That same year he took an orchestration class taught by Luciano Berio and was awarded a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival. According to Einaudi, "[Luciano Berio] did some interesting work with African vocal music and did some arrangements of Beatles songs, and he taught me that there is a sort of dignity inside music. I learnt orchestration from him and a very open way of thinking about music." He also learned by collaborating with musicians such as Ballaké Sissoko from Mali and Djivan Gasparyan from Armenia. His music is ambient, meditative, and often introspective, drawing on minimalism and contemporary pop. After studying at the conservatory in Milan and subsequently with Berio, Einaudi spent several years composing in traditional forms, including several chamber and orchestral compositions. He soon garnered international attention and his music was performed at venues such as the Teatro alla Scala, the Tanglewood Music Festival, Lincoln Center, and the UCLA Center for Performing Arts.] In the mid-1980s, he began to search for more personal expression in a series of works for dance and multimedia, and later for piano. Some of his collaborations in theater, video, and dance included compositions for the Sul filo d'Orfeo in 1984, Time Out in 1988, a dance-theater piece created with writer Andrea De Carlo, The Wild Man in 1990, and the Emperor in 1991. Later collaborations include Salgari (Per terra e per mare) (1995), an opera/ballet commissioned by the Arena di Verona with texts by Emilio Salgari, Rabindranath Tagore, and Charles Duke Jr, and E.A. Poe (1997), which was conceived as a soundtrack for silent films. ... Source: Article "Ludovico Einaudi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Production

The Water Diviner

2014

As Additional Music

Acquario

1996

As Compositor

Da qualche parte in città

1994

As Compositor

This Is England

2007

As Original Music Composer

Not of this World

1999

As Original Music Composer

The Intouchables

2011

As Original Music Composer

Treno di panna

1988

As Original Music Composer

The Third Murder

2017

As Original Music Composer

Watchtower of Turkey

2014

As Music

Aprile

1998

As Original Music Composer

The Father

2020

As Original Music Composer

With the Gypsy Girls

2012

As Music

Nomadland

2021

As Original Music Composer

Life

2014

As Music

Dialogues

2014

As Music

Light of My Eyes

2001

As Original Music Composer

Il grande spirito

2019

As Original Music Composer

Treno di panna

1988

As Songs

Samba

2014

As Original Music Composer

An Impossible Crime

2001

As Music

You, Me, and Movies

2023

As Music

Once in a Lifetime

2014

As Original Music Composer

The Braid

2023

As Original Music Composer

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