Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music. Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I'm Still Here, Nomadland, the TV miniseries Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), for which he won the Grolla d'oro. His music was used as the score for the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning films Nomadland and The Father. He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013. On 1 March 2019, Einaudi announced a seven-part project named Seven Days Walking, which was released over the course of seven months in 2019. Einaudi was born in Turin, Piedmont. His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher working with authors including Italo Calvino and Primo Levi, and founder of Giulio Einaudi Editore, while his paternal grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. His mother, Renata Aldrovandi, played the piano to him as a child. Her father, Waldo Aldrovandi, was a pianist, opera conductor, and composer who emigrated to Australia after World War II. Einaudi started composing his own music as a teenager, first writing by playing a folk guitar. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, obtaining a diploma in composition in 1982. That same year he took an orchestration class taught by Luciano Berio and was awarded a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival. According to Einaudi, "[Luciano Berio] did some interesting work with African vocal music and did some arrangements of Beatles songs, and he taught me that there is a sort of dignity inside music. I learnt orchestration from him and a very open way of thinking about music." He also learned by collaborating with musicians such as Ballaké Sissoko from Mali and Djivan Gasparyan from Armenia. His music is ambient, meditative, and often introspective, drawing on minimalism and contemporary pop. After studying at the conservatory in Milan and subsequently with Berio, Einaudi spent several years composing in traditional forms, including several chamber and orchestral compositions. He soon garnered international attention and his music was performed at venues such as the Teatro alla Scala, the Tanglewood Music Festival, Lincoln Center, and the UCLA Center for Performing Arts.] In the mid-1980s, he began to search for more personal expression in a series of works for dance and multimedia, and later for piano. Some of his collaborations in theater, video, and dance included compositions for the Sul filo d'Orfeo in 1984, Time Out in 1988, a dance-theater piece created with writer Andrea De Carlo, The Wild Man in 1990, and the Emperor in 1991. Later collaborations include Salgari (Per terra e per mare) (1995), an opera/ballet commissioned by the Arena di Verona with texts by Emilio Salgari, Rabindranath Tagore, and Charles Duke Jr, and E.A. Poe (1997), which was conceived as a soundtrack for silent films. ... Source: Article "Ludovico Einaudi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 23, 1955 (70)
- Torino, Italy
- Composer and actor
- 15 on MovieCove · 45 credits in all
What are Ludovico Einaudi's films like?
Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 11
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 3 · Dark 6
Grounded 8 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 5 · Charged 4 · Intense 2
Steady 9 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 8 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 11 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 4 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 4 · Heavy 5
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 3
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet7
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ludovico Einaudi's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 15 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (5).
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Ludovico Einaudi's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
45 credits, 15 with a MovieCove page; 5 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Tender and Cruel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Light Pollution (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
The Weight of What We Carry (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Broken Wings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
La Casa Di Cini Boeri (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Upon Open Sky(2023)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Braid(2023)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Ludovico Einaudi - "Like a Breath" (Live Footage and Documentary) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
The Baby (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
You, Me, and Movies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Ludovico Einaudi - Live @Maison de la Radio (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Nomadland(2020)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
The Father(2020)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Ludovico Einaudi: Apple Music Live from the Steve Jobs Theater (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Great Spirit (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Third Murder(2017)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
The Water Diviner(2014)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all filmsLife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Once in a Lifetime(2014)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Samba(2014)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Watchtower of Turkey (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Sculpted in Time: The Wise Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Ludovico Einaudi - Live In Verona: In A Time Lapse Tour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Dialogues (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
With the Gypsy Girls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Derek(2012)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
The Intouchables(2011)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Ludovico Einaudi - Royal Albert Hall Concert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
The End Is My Beginning (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
This Is England '86(2010)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
This Is England (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Sotto falso nome(2004)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Doctor Zhivago(2002)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
Alexandria (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Light of My Eyes(2001)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
The Words of My Father (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
An Impossible Crime (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
La vita altrui (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Giorni dispari (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Not of This World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Aprile (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Acquario (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Da qualche parte in città (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Treno di panna (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Career shape
A full career of 43 titles from 1988 to 2026.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ludovico Einaudi's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 76th percentile, the median of all 12; across their 11 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 74th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up10
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
10 of their 15 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved4
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser10
Reviewers score the sound and music 77/100 in their films, across 10 reviewed titles; fans 80, detractors 52. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Ludovico Einaudi's work okay for kids?
Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and frightening / intense run lighter than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Ludovico Einaudi work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ludovico Einaudi's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Éric Toledano shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Éric ToledanoShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Éric Toledano
- Olivier NakacheShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Olivier Nakache
Actors
- Omar SyShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Omar Sy
Editors
- Dorian Rigal-AnsousShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Dorian Rigal-Ansous
Producers
- Laurent ZeitounShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Laurent Zeitoun
- Nicolas Duval AdassovskyShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Nicolas Duval Adassovsky
- Yann ZenouShared titles: Samba (2014), The Intouchables (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Yann Zenou
