Franco Piersanti was born in Rome, Italy
on January 12, 1950. 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. 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. 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).
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.
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).
PIERSANTI, Franco
[1/12/1950, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- ] – composer, conductor, musician (piano,
bass).
Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold – 1984
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