Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone died on July 6th, 2020, at 91. An accomplished music maestro has composed more than 500 scores for cinema and television over 66 years, such as "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly", "The Untouchables", "The Mission", and "The Hateful Eight". Morricone was born in Rome and is the son of a trumpeter. He began writing music at age six and entered a conservatory to study music at age twelve. His classmate in school was filmmaker Sergio Leone, with whom he started collaborating with him by composing his spaghetti westerns that are part of his trilogy with its actor Clint Eastwood. Their careers took off with "A Fistful of Dollars", which has achieved him some prominence. However, one of his most influential scores in cinema history is "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly".
Morricone's other movie scores include "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Days of Heaven", John Carpenter's "The Thing", "The Mission", "Cinema Paradiso", "The Untouchables", "Bugsy", "Malena" and "Ripley's Game". In 2016, he became the oldest recipient to earn an Academy Award for Best Original Score in Quentin Tarantino's western "The Hateful Eight". Before that, in 2007, he was given an Honorary Award statuette for his contributions to the art of film music. Morricone's style of movie compositions helped several film composers in a deal of his inspiration to compose their soundtracks, like Hans Zimmer.
We will surely miss him. Here are the highlights of his film scores.
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