Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi was born 23 November 1955 and trained at Milan's Conservatorio Verdi, starting as a classical composer before pulling in pop, rock, folk, and world music. He scored This Is England, The Intouchables, the Doctor Zhivago series, and Acquario in 1996, which won him the Grolla d'oro; his music later appeared in the Oscar-winning Nomadland and The Father. Solo albums followed - I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, In a Time Lapse in 2013 - then in 2019 he released Seven Days Walking, a seven-part project unspooled across seven months. In 2005 Italy named him an Officer of the Order of Merit, a nod to music that holds still long enough to let you notice it's moving.