Ennio Morricone performed there several times, each time collecting the triumph he deserved.
This Tuesday, December 6, the Accor Arena will vibrate again thanks to the music composed by this very prolific composer.
Celebrated by the cinema, the maestro had to wait in order to finally be recognized as a musical genius.
Last year, the excellent film
Ennio
, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore with the help of the musician himself, showed the different facets of man.
Morricone was tired of being constantly questioned about his collaboration with Sergio Leone.
Some filmmakers had had a companionship as nourished with him as the director of
Once upon a time in America
.
Giuseppe Tornatore was one of them.
In addition to
Cinema Paradiso
, the two men had collaborated on a good number of films, Morricone having even agreed to come out of retirement in order to work with this much younger man.
From father to son
We are flabbergasted by this completely atypical course.
Son of an average trumpet player, little Ennio had been designated by his father to take up the torch, reluctantly.
On arrival, he will establish himself as one of the most flamboyant Italian composers, after an unusual career.
Little is known about this side of the Alps, but Ennio Morricone was a highly sought-after arranger for the Italian variety of the 50s and 60s. It is undoubtedly in this research that Morricone found himself.
It was there that he perfected his science of instrumental cutting, which signs his most beautiful scores.
The concert will be conducted by his son Andrea Morricone, a musician himself.
“Composing film music was a pain and torment for my father all his life, because he was considered a B musician. Yet he created more than 500 film scores and almost 520 compositions of what he called "absolute music",
he explained to us a few months ago.
My father was composing all the time.
An idea for a musical theme could come to him at 4 a.m.
The concert will be conducted by his son;
Andrea Morricone.
Johannes Neudecker/dpa
This tour, which began in Japan a few weeks ago, underlines the dimension of a composer finally recognized in all his richness.
“Ennio Morricone fought all his life to be recognized as a true musician,
explains Andrea Morricone
.
I remember that one day he had received a letter from a companion at the conservatory telling him that ''someone capable of composing a theme like that of Once Upon a Time in America must know the music and be gifted with a unique sensibility.
My dad cried
. "
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