Ferie d'agosto : RIP: Songwriter Giusto Pio dies at 91

RIP: Songwriter Giusto Pio dies at 91

He died the master Giusto Pio, memorable violin Battiato

TREVISO - He died in Castelfranco Veneto, where he was born, the musician composer Giusto Pio had made on January 11, 91 years. Pio is known to the public for having collaborated with Franco Battiato, with whom he worked since the late seventies. In 1981 he won the Sanremo Festival with the author of the song For Elise, with him and Alice. There are great silent men behind sounds huge.

Composer, arranger and conductor, Giusto Pio had a magical way of playing the violin and Battiato chose him as a teacher. In '79, the year de L ' era of the white boar , when the Sicilian artist was an alien in Discoring era lying on Persian carpets, Pio accompanied him with his instrument. N years he became well known for working with Giuni Russian, or Milva. In the eighties, the early nineties, was its experimental touch, imaginative and skillful, to help to create a sense.

Besides the collaborations, Pio boasts ten studio albums - from Creole Quartet (Durium, D30-040) recorded in '63 with a string quartet composed not only by him, also by Giuseppe Magnani (violin), Rinaldo Tosatti (purple ) and Nereo Gasperini (cello), in the gold streets (Foundation-Villa Benzi Zecchini) in 2000. He also devoted himself to sacred music. In recent years, he painted. And he wrote a hymn to the Dolomites. Two new songs - that are found in the book Sounds Color verses Flavors , s'intitolano Clandestino and Welcome Center .

"It's music himself," says those who knew him. Battiato was looking for him. "He had asked to receive violin lessons, for this was at my house. Then, from the didactic moment, we moved to the experimental. We were together a very interesting research work. Ours was an expression not encoded by specific rules. at one point, Franco was pushing me toward the composition. Thus were born the first songs and the first album. We got lucky. i still remember with emotion the first Lp of wide circulation, was entitled the era of the white boar and virtually coincided with a different way of making music of Battiato, "he said in an interview of nearly six years ago. Footprints on the net, footprints. "The words were of Franco. I basically intervenivo on sounds," he said.

After Patriot , one million copies sold, came the voice of the master . And after more than a hundred songs. Songs that he sang the whole of Italy. As summer at sea , which has the double-Battiato Pius signature. Pio studied at the Conservatory of Venice, graduating in violin. After winning a contest moved to Milan. And there he stayed for 40 years before deciding to return to Castelfranco Veneto. He played with the symphony orchestra of RAI, but steady and vital, even in many complex. To run sixteenth Pius songs used the lyre. He had an enormous repertoire, which ranged from the fourteenth century until its present. For this he was able to have visions of the future. "Music has no boundaries - he said -. Now then, with electronics, has opened up new, extraordinary possibilities."

For his ninety Steffani Conservatory of Castelfranco he had organized an evening at the Academic Theatre to hand him the Lifetime Achievement Award from the conservatory wanted to master, over time become the ambassador of the Castilian music in the world. Unfortunately the birthday boy was not able to go, during the Christmas holidays had fallen and fractured his hip. To receive the award, wanted by the director of the conservatory Paolo Troncon, had left his wife Mary Bottari, accompanied by his sons Stefano (orchestra of the Phoenix) and Giulia.

Pius was optimistic, died in silence. "The hope of a better tomorrow always exists. Also because? I see so many people carry the world in silence. Unfortunately, in the news, are almost always negative facts. Instead, there are many people, often unknown, they do a lot of good and they do not talk about anyone.
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