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25 JEAN-MARC LUISADA The theme of solitude recurs, but handled very differently, in La Dolce Vita . Think of the role Fellini gives to Alain Cuny: he plays the organ, then kills his children and himself. What a terrifying film in the way it denounces an idle society and the debauchery of superficial feelings! In pianistic terms, it’s beautifully written for the hands. We should always bear in mind that Rota was a composition pupil of Alfredo Casella and studied conducting with Fritz Reiner. The sharp contrasts and capricious harmonic elements here demand great freedom of sonority from the performer. The pain and sarcasm must seem perfectly natural!