Ennio Morricone talks about his music and the genesis of his autobiography

"Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words" is the autobiography of Master Ennio Morricone. For the first time in his life he decided to talk about himself, his music. Published by Oxford University Press
“This long exploration, this long reflection, was important and even necessary at this point in my life. Coming into contact with your memories doesn’t only entail the melancholy of something that slips away with time, but also looking forward, understanding who I am now. And who knows what else may still happen.”
This book is the result of years of meetings between Ennio Morricone and the young composer Alessandro De Rosa. It is a dense and profound dialogue, but at the same time clear and exact, discussing life, music, and the marvellous and unpredictable ways that life and music come into contact with and influence each other. Morricone offers a rich account of the path he has followed: the years of study at the Conservatory, the professional debut with RAI and RCA, where he wrote and arranged numerous songs that achieved success - including among many others Se telefonando performed by Mina - and his collaboration with the most important Italian and international directors, from Leone to Pasolini, Bertolucci, Tornatore, De Palma, Almodóvar, and Tarantino with the recent Oscar win.
In pages that are dizzying for any music and art lover, the master opens for the first time the door of his creative laboratory, introducing the reader to the ideas at the heart of his musical thought that make him one of the most brilliant composers of our time. With lucid honesty, Morricone recounts what composing means to him, unveiling the mysterious and ambivalent relationship that links music and images in cinema, as well as the creative urgency at the foundation of his experimentations with absolute music.
The pages continue with a dialogue that unites biographical information with musicological reflections, anecdote with technical explanation: “It is curious to observe and re-examine one’s life through a process of this nature. To be honest, I never would have thought I would do such a thing. Then I met Alessandro, and this project developed so gradually and spontaneously that I re-established contact with the facts that arose almost without realizing it was happening. I can now say I have taken on new positions with respect to certain events, those same events that typically in the course of a lifetime simply occur without one taking the time reflect on or put them into perspective.”
English Subtitles - Ashleigh Rose
Subtítulos español - Maurizio
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