IULM awards Master's degree ad honorem to Mogol

On October 28, 2024, IULM University will confer Giulio Rapetti Mogol an honorary Master's degree in "Music Publishing and Production." The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. in the Auditorium (IULM 6) and will be accompanied by a laudation by Prof. Stefano Lombardi Vallauri.

Mogol, born in Milan in 1936, is the best-known and most influential lyricist author in the history of Italian song. His career began in 1961, when the lyrics to the song "Al di là," performed by Betty Curtis and Armando Trovajoli, won the Sanremo Festival. Since then, Mogol has written songs that have profoundly marked Italian musical culture, thanks in part to his famous partnership with Lucio Battisti, creating lyrics which continue to inspire and fascinate generations of listeners.

Over the course of his career, Mogol gave rise to major projects, such as founding the record company Numero Uno, which launched the likes of Bruno Lauzi, PFM, Ivan Graziani and Mango. In 1981, he created the Nazionale Italiana Cantanti, and in 1992 he founded CET (Centro Europeo Toscolano) in Umbria, a nonprofit association that promotes popular culture, medicine and the environment. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 and 2023, Mogol prefers to call himself an author rather than a lyricist, emphasizing a broader vision of his creative role.

Following the ceremony, a two-day international conference entitled "Words (or Poems?) for Music?" will kick off, organized by IULM lecturer Luca Cerchiari, Director of the IULM Master's Program in "Music Publishing and Production," and Gilbert Gigliotti, University of Connecticut, USA.

The event is part of the Badge of Honour initiative