Leonello Casucci
Leonello Casucci (born December 23, 1885 in Pistoia , † September 9, 1975 in Desenzano del Garda ) was an Italian composer and pianist.
Casucci worked as a pianist with a tango band in Germany in the late 1920s. He is best known for the hit Schöne Gigolo, poor gigolo , which he composed in 1928 based on a text that Julius Brammer (1877–1943) had already written in 1924. In Italian the song is known as Gigolò based on a text by Enrico Frati (1889–1971), in English as Just a Gigolo based on a text by Irving Caesar (1895–1996).
Web links
- Works by and about Leonello Casucci in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leonello Casucci on MusicBrainz (English)
- Leonello Casucci at Allmusic (English)
- Leonello Casucci at Discogs (English)
- Leonello Casucci in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny, Franz Kerschbaumer: Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts. UPNE, ISBN 978-1-61168-298-4 , p. 277 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Adriano Mazzoletti: Il jazz in Italia: dalle origini all orchestra grandiflora . EDT srl, Turin 2004, ISBN 88-7063-704-2 , p. 92 ( limited preview in Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casucci, Leonello |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Casucci, Nello |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pistoia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1975 |
| Place of death | Desenzano del Garda |