Ezio Bosso is dead: his music has enchanted the world

"I don't know if I am happy but I keep the moments of happiness close, I live them to the end, to tears, as well as accept the moments of darkness, I am a normal person (...). My philosophy is to bind myself more to the happy moments because those, then, will serve as a handle to pull you up, when you are in bed and you cannot get up ".

This was the life philosophy of Ezio Bosso, the Turin pianist, composer and conductor who passed away today in his home in Bologna. The man - or rather - the artist was 48 years old and had been ill for some time. In 2011 Ezio underwent a delicate surgery to remove a brain tumor, but, during the same year, he was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease for which, unfortunately, there is still no cure.

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A life dedicated to music, his greatest passion, born at the age of four, when, thanks to a pianist great-aunt and his musician brother, he began taking piano lessons. But the road to fulfill his dream is uphill. "The son of a worker can never become an orchestra conductor, because the son of a worker must be a worker", this is the prejudice Ezio had to face at the beginning of his career. A prejudice that, thanks to an extraordinary talent and immoderate self-denial, the musician is able to fight and deny.

His fame in Italy grew in 2016, when Carlo Conti invited him to the Ariston stage during the Sanremo Festival as our guest of honor, to be able to know and appreciate this milestone of classical music. Among his successes, also the soundtrack of some of the greatest masterpieces of cinema, two among all Quo Vadis, Baby? And I'm not afraid.

Hi Ezio. Your music will be here as an undying testimony of incredible mastery and, listening to those notes, it will be a bit like having you still here, among us.