One of my favorite movies stars Tim Roth as "Novecento" (Italian for "Nineteen Hundred"). The movie title is The Legend of 1900.
He was born on a passenger ship that made the crossing between the US and Europe, mainly bringing immigrants to America.
He was left on the ocean liner and found by one of the ship's engine room crew, Danny, and he decided to keep him and raise him.
Danny named him Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 (a combination of his own name, an advertisement found on the box Danny found the baby in, and the year he was born). They called him "1900" for short.
He was born, raised and learned everything he knew aboard that same ship, never setting foot on dry land. He taught himself at a young age to play the piano, and became a member of the ship's band.
The story centers around 1900's music, and how he "sees" it -- never playing the same song the same way twice.
It's a long movie, and sometimes the switching back and forth between the present and past gets confusing at first, but it's not that distracting.
It's another movie about the music and the musicians: 1900 and his trumpet-player friend telling the story.
If you've never seen it, it's worth the time -- if only for the piano duel between 1900 and the Jazz pianist, Jelly Roll Morton (Clarence Williams III).