One of the most important representant of the city of Rome in tv, cinema and theatre. Protagonist of many cult movies and theatrical show. Some of his greatest performances of the seventies were released as LP by Cinevox Record.
French composer that in his career collaborated with Satie and Cocteau. He composed chambre music, ballet music and many soundtracks for french and english movies. His score for "Poppy is also a flower" was published on the first record released by Cinevox in 1960.
Eclectic and innovative composer, he is in touch with the main protagonits of the 20th century contemporary music (Pierre Boulez, Oliver Messiaen, John Cage and many more). He is the teacher of Luigi Nono and together with Luciano Berio he creates the Rai musical phonology institute and the magazine "Incontri musicali". He anticipates the structuralism and the electronic music. He composes some movie soundtracks like "La morte ha fatto l'uovo" ("A Curious Way to Love") by Giulio Questi.
The turning point in his career comes when his music teacher Achille Longo is asked to compose a movie soundtrack. De Masi is suddenly enchanted by the world of the soundtracks and he focuses himself to write film music, especially for Italo Western movies. His soundtrack of "Quanto costa morire" ("Cost of Dying") is a great classic in Cinevox Record catalogue.
Son of the actor and director Vittorio De Sica, he studies with the composer Bruno Maderna. He composes symphonic and chambre music, but he is mostly known especially for his works in the field of film music. Amongst the many soundtracks composed by him we can mentionthe ones for "Io e dio", first movie by Pasquale Squitieri and "Cose di cosa nostra" by Steno
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