Giovanni Fusco

Giovanni Fusco ( born October 10, 1906 in Sant'Agata dei Goti, † May 31, 1968 in Rome) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and director.

Life

Fusco studied piano and graduated in 1931 at the Conservatorio di Pesara in composition; eleven years later at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome as a conductor.

In addition to concert activities Fusco worked early for RAI and as a musician for the film, for example in 1943 at Il de mia moglie fidanzato. Fusco has composed numerous film scores - between 1936 and his death, he created over 100 soundtracks - often got the music editor and worked as a music historian. In 1963 he directed under the pseudonym Vasco Ugo Finni two film versions of lyrical operas, which were shown in only a limited extent in the Italian province of cinemas and in part on television.

Fusco's compositional idiosyncrasies are the terms " eclectic, basic, musical aphorisms and expressive semantic- sufficiency " described.

Filmography (selection)

Director

Composer

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