Vittorio Centanaro

Vittorio Centanaro (Genova, 21 April 1929 - Genova, September 29, 2011) was an Italian guitarist and composer. In the 60s enters the Genoese singer-songwriters around, especially Gino Paoli, Bruno Lauzi and Fabrizio De André. The latter is one of the first close collaborators, and together he puts in place the arrangements of some famous songs: La Guerra Di Piero , Fila La Lana, Si Chiamava Gesù. De André in his writing is full of praise for the 'friend Vittorio, established one of the cleanest people I have ever known; writes and speaks of him as an eternal child, not in a reductive way, but I really like a little child Pascolian: for him the perception, the use and the construction of' art - be it running or creative composition - occur with a direct path, without mediation, in a context of wise insight and amazement as free. The period of fame and success of Vittorio Centanaro he begins in the mid sixties, when it was consolidated with the duo Luciano Winderling with which - under the name Cenataro-Winderling and up until 1972 - performs at the Teatrino di Piazza Marsala in a series shows that arouse curiosity and enthusiasm: they will be seeking in search of the little known cultured and elegant court music, especially French-inspired troubadour of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque. The texts are translated and adapted by the same elegantly Winderling and Giulia Wolves, wife of Centanaro. Thus was born the 33 rpm highly successful Viva la Rosa, published in Milan in 1972 and which for decades has been exhausted and nowhere to be found.