Ennio Morricone (Composer)
Born: 10th November 1928, Rome, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Ennio Morricone, OMRI was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered as one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all Sergio Leone's films since A Fistful of Dollars, all Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, The Battle of Algiers, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, 1900, Exorcist II, Days of Heaven, several major films in French cinema, in particular the comedy trilogy La Cage aux Folles I, II, III and Le Professionnel, as well as The Thing, Once Upon a Time in America, The Mission, The Untouchables, Mission to Mars, Bugsy, Disclosure, In the Line of Fire, Bulworth, Ripley's Game, and The Hateful Eight. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is regarded as one of the most recognizable and influential soundtracks in history. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
After playing the trumpet in jazz bands in the 1940s, he became a studio arranger for RCA Victor and in 1955 started ghost writing for film and theatre.
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Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
The Oscar-winning Italian composer, whose iconic film scores included A Fistful of Dollars, Cinema Paradiso and The Hateful Eight, has died aged 91.
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- A Fistful of Dollars: theme (3)
- A Fistful of Dynamite (6)
- Abolisson (From 'Quemada') (4)
- Bugsy (4)
- Casualties of War (5)
- Chi Mai (5)
- Cinema Paradiso (16)
- Cinema Paradiso: introduction (7)
- Gabriel's Oboe (44)
- H2S (6)
- I Knew I Loved You (4)
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (5)
- Malena (4)
- Metti, una sera a cena (6)
- Moses and Marco Polo Suite (3)
- My Heart and I (2)
- Nella Fantasia (25)
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (7)
- On Earth as it is in Heaven (from The Mission) (5)
- Once upon a time in America (9)
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Jill's Theme (3)
- Once upon a time in the West: theme (20)
- Per le antiche scale (3)
- Playing Love (7)
- Poverty (2)
- Ricordare (From 'A Pure Formality') (4)
- Riflessi (2)
- Sergio Leone Suite (3)
- The Ecstasy of Gold (4)
- The Edge of Love (2)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Ectasy of Gold (9)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: theme (17)
- The Hateful Eight (3)
- The Man With The Harmonica (3)
- The Mission (17)
- The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe (21)
- The Sicilian Clan (3)
- The Untouchables (3)
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven (5)