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Musician Einaudi
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A man is sitting at the piano, outside the fields are foggy: Ludovico Einaudi's music doesn't need many images, it creates them all by itself, in the head.
The Italian musician Einaudi, 66, manages the feat of being both the world star of neoclassical music and the genre's great anti-show-off.
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He writes soundtracks for films such as "Nomadland" with Frances McDormand or "The Father" with Anthony Hopkins, is one of the most streamed classical musicians and yet comes across as modest.
He hasn't released a solo piano album for a long time - until recently »Underwater« came out.
It's his first in 20 years.
Einaudi's lonely lockdown soundtrack.
The pieces on it manage to tell touching stories with few means.
He is exclusively presenting a performance video for one of these pieces, »Underwater«, to SPIEGEL.