Il genio, l'uomo, il padre
(The Genius, the Man, the Father)
Authors: Marco Morricone, Valerio Caooelli, Aldo Cazzullo
Publisher: Sperling & Kupfer
Language: Italian
Pages: 272 pages
ISBN-10 8820080125
ISBN-13 978-8820080129
Available: June 4, 2024
From a door ajar, a child secretly looks at a man hunched
over a desk. He has large square glasses and a crewneck sweater, he is deeply
absorbed, he traces marks on a pentagram: his body is there, in the center of
the room, but the mind and spirit that inhabit him seem projected elsewhere,
far away. "He was my father, but there was a sidereal distance between me
and him." It is from this deep core of mystery that decades later, that
child, Marco Morricone, Ennio's eldest son, tries to tie the threads of memories
with those of Valerio Cappelli, the historic signature of the Corriere della
Sera and a lifelong friend of the composer, to give us an unpublished,
surprising and authentic portrait of one of the greatest musical geniuses that
our country has ever had. The interrupted studies after the eighth grade, the
evenings spent playing for the American soldiers, the obsession with music, the
intense relationship with Maestro Petrassi, spirituality, the meetings with
Sergio Leone, Joan Baez, Clint Eastwood, the success, the Oscars, the sweetness
and harshness of a father (the prohibition for children to listen to music at
home), his passion for Roma, his sweet tooth for the chocolates that his wife
Maria hid from him, the ostracism he suffered from the academic world. A
lifelong journey, between first-hand accounts and behind-the-scenes revealed.
An Ennio Morricone as it has never been told before. Preface by Aldo Cazzullo.
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