Giovanni Fusco
Giovanni Fusco (born October 10, 1906 in Sant'Agata dei Goti , † May 31, 1968 in Rome ) was an Italian composer , pianist , conductor and director .
Life
Fusco studied piano and graduated in composition from the Conservatorio di Pesara in 1931 ; eleven years later at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome as a conductor.
In addition to concert activities, Fusco worked early for the RAI and as a musician for the film, for example in 1943 with Il fidanzato de mia moglie . Fusco composed numerous film scores - between 1936 and his death he created over 100 soundtracks - he often did the music editing and worked as a music historian. In 1963 he directed two film versions of lyrical operas under the pseudonym Vasco Ugo Finni , which were shown only to a limited extent in Italian provincial cinemas and partly on television.
Fusco's compositional peculiarities are described with the terms “eclectic, fundamental, musical aphorisms and semantic-expressive frugality”.
Filmography (selection)
- Director
- 1963: L'occasione fa il ladro
- 1963: L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
- composer
- 1948: Street cleaning (NU)
- 1950: Chronicle of a love (Cronaca di un amore)
- 1955: The girlfriends (corpse)
- 1957: The Scream (Il grido)
- 1958: Aphrodite - goddess of love (Afrodite, dea dell'amore)
- 1958: Professor Bantini's flying machine (Avventura nell'arcipelago)
- 1959: Hiroshima, mon amour (Hiroshima mon amour)
- 1960: Those who play with love (L'avventura)
- 1960: innocence in cross-examination (Il rossetto)
- 1961: The battle for Troy (La guerra di Troia)
- 1961: It's called Amore
- 1962: Love 1962 (L'eclisse)
- 1964: The red desert (Il deserto rosso)
- 1966: The war is over (La guerre est finie)
- 1968: The sex of angels (Il sesso degli angeli)
- 1968: The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta)
- 1969: love and anger (Amore e rabbia)
- 1970: The Confession (L'Aveu)
Web links
- Giovanni Fusco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website with a detailed biography (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 178
- ↑ http://www.giovannifusco.com/BiografiaITA.asp
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fusco, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finni, Vasco Ugo (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer, pianist, conductor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sant'Agata dei Goti |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1968 |
| Place of death | Rome |