{"id":724,"date":"2021-01-27T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/?page_id=724"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:08:46","slug":"ennio-morricone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/ennio-morricone\/","title":{"rendered":"WITH ENNIO MORRICONE:"},"content":{"rendered":"<form class=\"mltlngg_switcher\" name=\"mltlngg_change_language\" method=\"post\" action=\"\"><button class=\"mltlngg-lang-button-icons\" name=\"mltlngg_change_display_lang\" value=\"it_IT\" title=\"Italiano\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"mltlngg-lang\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/multilanguage\/images\/flags\/it_IT.png\" alt=\"Italiano\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><button class=\"mltlngg-lang-button-icons\" name=\"mltlngg_change_display_lang\" value=\"en_US\" title=\"English\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"mltlngg-current-lang\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/multilanguage\/images\/flags\/en_US.png\" alt=\"English\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><\/form>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLxGB0elUv1WYThnPI21fEKHa-D4g1xpYq\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/it_IT\/inseguendo-quel-suono\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;ENNIO MORRICONE &#8211; INSEGUENDO QUEL SUONO. LA MIA MUSICA, LA MIA VITA. CONVERSAZIONI CON ALESSANDRO DE ROSA&#8221;<\/a> (Mondadori Libri, 2016-2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to working as a writer and speaker for RSI (Swiss Italian Radio and Television), Alessandro is the biographer of Maestro Ennio Morricone and co-author of his autobiographical conversation book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/inseguendo-quel-suono\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ennio Morricone \u2013 In His Own Words. Ennio Morricone in conversation with Alessandro De Rosa<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2019, 2020, 2022), the Maestro&#8217;s official autobiography, originally published in 2016 in Italy by Mondadori Libri and translated into several of the world&#8217;s most spoken languages. The result of over four years of conversations, study, and passionate work, as well as a relationship spanning more than eleven years, during which mutual esteem between De Rosa and Morricone deepened into a profound friendship. The Maestro himself describes it this way in his preface:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c [&#8230;] beyond a shadow of a doubt the best ever written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed and well curated. The truest.\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Ennio Morricone<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book also includes important testimonies from Giuseppe Tornatore, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlo Verdone, Giuliano Montaldo, Boris Porena, and Sergio Miceli (and in the English edition, also from Quincy Jones, John Williams, James Hetfield of Metallica, and Pat Metheny). Read their testimonies by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/it_IT\/inseguendo-quel-suono\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1458 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-425x425.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ennio-Morricone-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1455 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-425x425.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1456 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b-1536x774.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b-600x302.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-1b.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1457 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-425x425.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IQS-All-Editions-2.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/it_IT\/io-e-ennio-morri\u2026e-amazon-audible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8220;IO &amp; ENNIO MORRICONE&#8221; (Amazon Audible, Podcast, Febbraio 2020)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-732 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/51U80pfe4nL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/51U80pfe4nL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/51U80pfe4nL-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/51U80pfe4nL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/51U80pfe4nL-425x425.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/51U80pfe4nL.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/>De Rosa and Morricone continued to meet and work together even after the publication of <em>Inseguendo quel suono<\/em>. One of the additional testimonies that emerged from their collaboration is the podcast <em>Io &amp; Ennio Morricone<\/em>, released by Amazon Audible in February 2020. In this podcast, Morricone and De Rosa engage in conversations about some of the Maestro\u2019s professional and life experiences in a manner similar to, yet distinct from, their book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Faudibleit%2Fvideos%2F2489209031328665%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476\" width=\"900\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cENNIO\u201d (2022) BY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE <\/strong> As the biographer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/ennio-morricone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maestro Ennio Morricone&#8217;s official biographer<\/a>, Alessandro De Rosa took part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckyred.it\/movie\/ennio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giuseppe Tornatore&#8217;s documentary &#8220;Ennio&#8221;<\/a>, distributed by Lucky Red.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4S2vxUqApeI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[multilanguage_switcher]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLxGB0elUv1WYThnPI21fEKHa-D4g1xpYq\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-t...\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alessandroderosa.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}