Works

LE REGOLE DEL PIANOFORTE

33 note di musica e filosofia per una vita fuori dall’ordinario (Solferino)

“Sii folle, ribelle, entusiasta, ma non dimenticare mail il buio che hai dentro, non perdere il contatto con l’origine della tua forza creativa e con ciò che ti accomuna all’essenza del genere umano: la fragilità. Giorno dopo giorno, nota dopo nota, vedrai trasformarsi la tua vita in un’opera d’arte.”

LE REGOLE DEL PIANOFORTE

33 note di musica e filosofia per una vita fuori dall’ordinario (Solferino)

“Sii folle, ribelle, entusiasta, ma non dimenticare mail il buio che hai dentro, non perdere il contatto con l’origine della tua forza creativa e con ciò che ti accomuna all’essenza del genere umano: la fragilità. Giorno dopo giorno, nota dopo nota, vedrai trasformarsi la tua vita in un’opera d’arte.”

LE REGOLE DEL PIANOFORTE

33 note di musica e filosofia per una vita fuori dall’ordinario (Solferino)

“Sii folle, ribelle, entusiasta, ma non dimenticare mail il buio che hai dentro, non perdere il contatto con l’origine della tua forza creativa e con ciò che ti accomuna all’essenza del genere umano: la fragilità. Giorno dopo giorno, nota dopo nota, vedrai trasformarsi la tua vita in un’opera d’arte.”

A Lizard’s Balance

The universe is asymmetrical. So is happiness (Solferino)

A novel that is intense, but light, which is dedicated to anybody who, from time to time, feels themselves waver and are scared of falling. It is a fairy tale that, like music itself, talks straight to the heart, to awaken an ability that all of us hold inside: being able to listen to ourselves and regenerate.

Revolutions

Innovation, madness and change (Solferino)

Philosophic thoughts from Giovanni Allevi, full of music and beauty, in which he undertakes an in-depth exploration of innovation, with analytical rigour and flights of imagination.

“Music is my greatest madness; I can’t control it.”

“Breaking the rules, opening up new paths can’t happen without meeting opposition.”

“Every human being who decides to take new paths cannot avoid the fear of the uncertain, and the guilt of abandonment.”

The Music in my Head (Rizzoli, 24/7)

An intense autobiographical story that highlights the picture of a complex and multi-faceted artist, who has the ability to explain philosophical abstraction in simple, everyday language. The Music in my Head is a paean to what is happening now, to everyday beauty and to simple happiness hidden behind the surface of things, since “even a grey sky is full of notes.

PHRASES IN EVIDENCE

“If we learn to be quiet, we will become able to grasp the eternal dance that surrounds us.”

“You should never be scared to break the rules, if it is our heart that asks us to. You should never be fearful of destabilising a system: need for change is in its nature. But above all you should always have the courage to expose yourself, to dare, to put yourself in play: for an artist, that is an obligation!”

“The keys hide a garden of marvels.”

“Young people, especially Europeans, are now living through the collapse of a society governed by image, and are feeling for themselves all of the full inconsistency of how they have been deceived and are finding themselves embroiled in an old, overcrowded world and they want to fly high, and to find themselves without barriers or filters, to express their emotional and creative universe to set against the desolation outside. You just have to know how to listen to them, and to appreciate their naïve candour, which has not yet been threatened by the inevitable disenchantment of adult years, so that you can submerge yourself in their boundless creativity, in the poetic brilliance of their thoughts, with the desire for an authentic life that follows the only real truth: emotions. The new generations will pull the world into a New Renaissance.”

“People travelling towards their dreams are always protected.”

NOTE: This book has been put into Braille by the Regina Margherita Italian Library for the Blind, which is a non-profit organisation. For more information, or to make a purchase, please go to bic@bibciechi.it

Travelling with a Witch (Rizzoli, 24/7)

A photographic book in which Giovanni goes through his own artistic evolution in a sincere and private diary which doesn’t hold back in telling the whole truth about his deep personal crisis.

PHRASES IN EVIDENCE

“My music lives through their emotions.”

“Freed from the cage of thought, an instant becomes infinite.”

“There will always be new music.”

I Will Take You With Me

My life in music (Rai / Eri)

My life in music
A photographic book that recounts the extraordinary artistic and human adventure and which leads us to the heart of Allevi’s story and philosophy.

PHRASES IN EVIDENCE

“We are splinters of paradise that have fallen to earth and we yearn to return back up there.”

“Music is the real driving force in my whole story.”

“What is it that really counts? Unquestionably it is experiencing emotions. Feeling. These are the key words of our times.”

Classic Rebel (Rizzoli)

This book is an aesthetic manifesto that brings together the passionate and profound thinking of Giovanni Allevi, with his relationship between technique and inspiration, up to the theorisation of the definition of contemporary classical music

PHRASES IN EVIDENCE

“If we manage to write music that comes straight out of life, and of our ability to suffer, and having suffered the blows of existence, and of having our beings squashed by reality, then that music will definitely come in tune with people’s emotions and aspirations. And it will provoke changes that nobody will be able to stop.”

“I am a friend of the present and the future. I love the past when it gives me inspiration to invent something new.”

“I have gambled with my life. And in life, in emotions, there is nothing that is certain.”

A Lizard’s Balance

The universe is asymmetrical. So is happiness (Solferino)

A novel that is intense, but light, which is dedicated to anybody who, from time to time, feels themselves waver and are scared of falling. It is a fairy tale that, like music itself, talks straight to the heart, to awaken an ability that all of us hold inside: being able to listen to ourselves and regenerate.

PHRASES IN EVIDENCE

“Balance is feeling you have not done enough.”

“It is from asymmetry that movement stems, as does a lack of completion, and thus life as well.”

“Imbalance is a condition that is full of secrets that need to be unveiled.”