Franco de Gemini
Franco de Gemini (born September 10, 1928 in Ferrara , † July 20, 2013 in Rome ) was an Italian composer and harmonica player . He can be heard in the film Play Me a Song of Death , among others .
Life
Franco de Gemini was the son of a police officer and grew up in Turin . He was a musical self-taught .
He started playing the harmonica in the 1940s . The first recordings for film soundtracks were made in 1953, including for Pane, amore e fantasia . Alessandro Cicognini composed the music for this film .
In 1953 de Gemini also appeared at the Sanremo Festival . There I made contact with Berto Pisani , in whose orchestra he played from then on.
In total, de Gemini worked on more than 800 film scores . He worked with Piero Piccioni , Armando Trovajoli and Ennio Morricone , among others . In 1961 he was involved in Bernstein's West Side Story , in 1968 in Spiel mir das Lied von Tod , in 1975 in Allora il Treno .
In 1968 he founded the Beat Record company , which released numerous film soundtracks. In 1985 the company Pentaflowers followed . In 2006 his memoirs came out.
With his wife Luciana, b. Morello, he had two sons.
Franco de Gemini died after a long illness.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legendary harmonica player Franco de Gemini passed away on July 21, 2013 on de.playhohner.de
- ↑ Laurence Staig, Franco de Gemini: Harmonica player who performed on hundreds of film scores , August 7, 2013 in The Independent ( online )
- ↑ Franco de Gemini is dead , in: Focus , July 22, 2013 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Gemini, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and harmonica player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ferrara |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th July 2013 |
| Place of death | Rome |