Ludovico Einaudibelieves he is one of the most important classical music composers of our time.Composing music is like cooking pastaWhen you prepare pasta for many years, you already know how to cook it, but sometimes you want it to taste different.”
creator of music for movies like ‘Untouchable’, ‘Land of the Nomads’ Y ‘Father’ In an interview with Agencia Efe, as a good Italian, the problem “find a way to sound differentto add flavor you didn’t have to the pasta you cooked yesterday”.
The composer is preparing for his first concert in Seville on September 25, during the iconic festival, which will be his first visit to the city where he is waiting “with enthusiasm” especially for the “beauty” of his destination. game, Spain Square.
Einaudi (Turin, 1955), who declared himself to be a fan of the Cadiz composer Manuel de Falla, was able, according to his words, at his previous concerts in other cities of Spain. Spanish people are “very warm” so they feel “atmosphere will be great”.
To better understand the composition process, nature and in the hands of man to develop it.: “It’s like having a garden where all the light comes in and you can see all the flowers”, if you want to improve the space “to discover the best plants you need to put in or remove some plants that give you darkness”.
he thinks of himself his “first folk”His music is supposed to move him, stir his emotions, make him happy and cry, and he’s sure the same will happen to the audience, because “without him the music would have stayed on my walls”. house.”
He admitted that he has changed over time with his music career of more than two decades: “When you start cooking, you don’t know how to make eggs, and years later you start to combine ingredients”.
The same goes for music. “You start playing the piano, then you try out how the piano works with string instruments, and then you want to try electronic instruments”and always returns to the piano, although he claims to have experimented in recent years.
Before collaborating with other artists, Einaudi assured that his current quest was to “purify the soul” of his music, so on his latest album, ‘Underwater’, only he and his piano are the protagonists.
“My music is not a mirror of my life, but a mirror of my desires, tastes and ideas that I want to share with the public,” the composer said.
artist this summer working on a french movie“It’s the best moment because he’s exploring ideas and exchanging impressions with the director,” says , with no further information available.
Ludovico Einaudi at the already sold out Seville concert A trio of musicians will accompany: Federico Mecozzi (violin), Redi Hasa (cello) and Francesco Arcuri (electronics and percussion).