Franco Piersanti
Franco Piersanti | |
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Piersanti at the 2023 Bari International Film Festival | |
Born | 12 January 1950 (1950-01-12) (age 74) Rome, Italy |
Franco Piersanti (born 12 January 1950) is an Italian composer and conductor.
Born in Rome, Piersanti graduated in double bass at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied composition under the guidance of Armando Renzi and conducting under Franco Ferrara and Piero Bellugi.[1] He later played bass in the RAI Symphony Orchestra.
During his studies he knew the composer Nino Rota, and he became his assistant between 1975 and 1977.[2] In 1976 he debuted as film composer scoring the Nanni Moretti's first film, Io sono un autarchico and then started a long collaboration with him that continued with Moretti's Habemus Papam (2011).[2]
Piersanti is also well known for his long collaboration with the director Gianni Amelio, for whom he scored seven movies between 1982 and 2006, including The Stolen Children (1992) and Lamerica (1994), for which he won two David di Donatello for Best Score.[1]
His soundtracks include Love and Fear (1988), The Second Time (1995), Inspector Montalbano (1999), The Best Day of My Life (2002), The Beast in the Heart (2005), My Brother is an Only Child (2007) and Fort Apache Napoli (2009).
References
- ^ a b Emanuela Martini. Gianni Amelio. Il castoro, 2006.
- ^ a b Susanna Buffa. Un musicista per il cinema. Carocci, 2004.
External links
- Franco Piersanti Official Website
- Franco Piersanti at IMDb
- Franco Piersanti at Discogs
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- Piero Piccioni (1975)
- Franco Mannino (1976)
- Nino Rota (1977)
- Armando Trovajoli (1978)
- Fiorenzo Carpi (1981)
- Lucio Dalla and Fabio Liberatori (1982)
- Angelo Branduardi (1983)
- Armando Trovajoli and Vladimir Cosma (1984)
- Carlo Savina (1985)
- Riz Ortolani / Nicola Piovani (1986)
- Ennio Morricone (1988)
- Ennio Morricone (1989)
- Claudio Mattone (1990)
- Ennio Morricone (1991)
- Franco Piersanti (1992)
- Ennio Morricone (1993)
- Nicola Piovani (1994)
- Franco Piersanti (1995)
- Manuel De Sica (1996)
- Paolo Conte (1997)
- Nino D'Angelo (1998)
- Ennio Morricone (1999)
- Ennio Morricone (2000)
- Nicola Piovani (2001)
- Fabio Vacchi (2002)
- Andrea Guerra (2003)
- Banda Osiris (2004)
- Riz Ortolani (2005)
- Franco Piersanti (2006)
- Ennio Morricone (2007)
- Paolo Buonvino (2008)
- Teho Teardo (2009)
- Ennio Morricone (2010)
- Rita Marcotulli and Rocco Papaleo (2011)
- David Byrne (2012)
- Ennio Morricone (2013)
- Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2014)
- Giuliano Taviani (2015)
- David Lang (2016)
- Enzo Avitabile (2017)
- Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2018)
- Sascha Ring and Philipp Thimm (2019)
- Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (2020)
- Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo and Downtown Boys (2021)
- Nicola Piovani (2022)
- Stefano Bollani (2023)
- Subsonica (2024)