Gianfranco Plenizio was born in Sedegliano, Udine, Italy
on January 10, 1931. Gianfranco studied piano and composition with Enrico De
Angelis Valentini, conducting with Franco Ferrara and Zoltán
Peskó. Fundamental to his training were his visits to Luigi
Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Hermann Scherchen and Gillo
Dorfles, his professor of aesthetics at the University of Trieste.
After starting his activity as a director of opera, he
dedicated himself to music for film collaborating, in the two roles of composer
and conductor, with prestigious filmmakers including Pietro
Germi, Billy Wilder, Renato Castellani, Franco Rosi, Elio
Petri, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Dino Risi, Ettore
Scola, Ermanno Olmi and Federico Fellini - for which he
composed the music for the film "E
la nave va".
In the meantime he continued his concert activity, both as a
pianist and as a conductor. He was the artistic director of the "Incontri Musicali Romani" a contemporary
music festival. For almost thirty years he dealt with the despised
repertoire of Italian chamber romance, and collected an archive containing
about 20,000 vocal passages.
Plenizio wrote
several musical scores for the theater, but his main production was film
music. He composed the music for thirty films and conducted the orchestra
in more than 250.
In 1985 he was awarded the SIAE - International Year of Music award and in 2004
the National Performing Arts
Award.
Gianfranco Plenizio died in Rome, Italy on February 7, 2017.
PLENIZIO, Gianfranco (aka Gianfranco Plemizio, G. Ployer)
[1/10/1931, Sedegliano, Udine, Italy - 2/7/2017, Rome,
Lazio, Italy] – composer, conductor,
muscian (piano), essayist.
Garter Colt –
1967 [composer, conductor]
Boot Hill* – 1969
[conductor]
El Puro* – 1969
[conductor]
The Price of Power*
– 1969 [conductor]
They Call Me
Trinity* – 1970 [conductor]
Bastard Go and
Kill* – 1971 [conductor]
Trinity is STILL
My Name* – 1971 [conductor]
The Three
Musketeers of the West* – 1973 [conductor]
White Fang to the Rescue – 1974 [conductor]
Eh? Who’s Afraid
of Zorro!* – 1975 [composer, conductor]
Red Coat – 1975
[conductor]
Spaghetti Western
– 1975 [composer]
Zorro* – 1975
[conductor]
Django Strikes
Again*- 1987 [composer, conductor]
*Available on CD
No comments:
Post a Comment