Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Einaudi Enrico Maria ( born November 23, 1955 in Turin ) is an Italian composer and pianist.
Biography
Ludovico Einaudi comes from an influential Italian family. The grandfather Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was from 1948 to 1955, President of Italy, the other grandfather was a composer and conductor. His father, the Turin publisher Giulio Einaudi, in 1933 founded a prestigious publishing house, which is one of the important institutions of literary life in the country. Einaudi grew up in this musical home between politicians and artists, journalists and writers; the mother brought him early at the piano.
Einaudi was trained at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi ( Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory ) in Milan, where he met, among others, in the avant-garde composer Luciano Berio. In 1982 he received a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts / USA.
He lives mostly in the large family vineyard in Piedmont.
Music
First successes came as a film composer. After Andrea De Carlos " Big money " had successfully written a soundtrack in 1988, followed by similar projects. Mid-1990s, he began a solo piano programs, where he stylistically oriented to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass, Didier Squiban or Erik Satie. After numerous compositions for chamber music and orchestral works Einaudi began to care for the song structures of pop artists such as PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Björk and Coldplay.
He is one of the most well-known pianist and composer in Italy. In England, with Le Onde 1996 he succeeded in entering the pop charts.
His music direction, he describes himself with the following citation:
" In general I do not like definitions, but ' Minimalist ' is a term did Means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else. ( German translation: In general I like does not refer to definitions, but ' Minimalist ' is a term of elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called Minimalist because somehow otherwise) "
Awards
- Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2005
Compositions
Orchestral works:
Incidental music:
20 compositions for chamber ensemble