22/04/2003

Italian composer, Nicola Piovani has been given the honour of being the first musician to hold a masterclass called "Leçon de Musique" at the Cannes Film Festival. The masterclass will take place on 20 May as part of a retrospective dedicated to Federico Fellini. “More than a masterclass, which would require the presence of a real professor, this will be my thoughts about music and Fellini’s films,” said Piovani in an interview with Tamtamcinema.it.

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Piovani, who won an Oscar for the music he composed for Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful, is also a favourite of Nanni Moretti’s, and he worked on Fellini’s last three films Intervista, Ginger and Fred and La voce della luna. “Fellini wanted music to animate the images from a different point of view,” said Piovani. “ ‘Let’s go and put some wind up this film, a breeze that will cause even the most leaden scenes to take off and fly...’ was what he used to say at our encounters.”

(Translated from Italian)