Each person has personal ways to relax after a hard day. Someone picks up a book or a TV remote control, someone is engaged in self-education, or just sits down in an armchair and enjoys good music. And if you are a fan of the latter, try listening to the works of one of the most prominent composers and pianists of our time, Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi
Biography
Ludovico was born in the late autumn of 1955 in the Italian town of Turin, in the Piedmont region. His grandfather Luigi served as president of Italy, and his father Giulio worked as a publisher, publishing masterpieces of Italian writers. Renata, Ludovico's mother, was a master at the piano, as her father Waldo Aldrovandi was a professional pianist and conductor who had migrated from Austria. Apparently, the mother instilled in her son a love for creativity and for the piano, although the future composer wrote his first works in an arrangement for classical guitar.
As a young man, he went to study at the Milan Conservatory, and graduated with honors, receiving a diploma in 1982. His talent was noticed by the famous pianist Luciano Berio, with whose help Ludovico took part in the Tanglewood Music Festival. In his interviews, Ludovico speaks of his mentor with great warmth and gratitude.
Career
The main fame for this composer was brought by the musical accompaniment to the films "Black Swan", Doctor Zhivago ", the cycle of documentaries" This is England "and many others. Ludovico is popular not only in his homeland, where he was awarded many awards and even the owner of an honorary order, but also on the world service iTunes, where the number of purchases of his works is increasing every day. In addition, he has collaborated with many stars and record studios as a session musician, and his music has been used in commercials, trailers, and video games.
One of the most amazing videos with the participation of Ludovico Einaudi is the recording of his work Elegy for the Arctic, which he performs on the piano, with both the maestro and the instrument floating on an ice floe between the majestic snows of the Arctic. As it turned out, this performance was created by the global environmental organization Greenpeace, which wanted to draw attention to the global problem of melting glaciers in the Arctic.
Subsequently, the composer decided to continue to engage in social activities, and has already begun to draw attention to the problem of water shortage in Africa, in a word, the musician has become one of those people who are trying to preserve our wonderful planet for posterity. As he himself claims, travel, painting and good wine are sources of inspiration for him.
Personal life
Ludovico prefers to keep silent about his personal life, he does not give any information on this matter either in interviews or in his accounts on social networks. For those around him, Einaudi is his music, and his family's privacy and peace are carefully guarded by him. It is only known that he has a loving wife and two children, a son Leo and a daughter Jessica.
