Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (recent)

Ennio Morricone, passed away on July 6th 2020 at age 91. He was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles, but is best known for his movie scores.

Ennio Morricone

Maestro Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His composition and score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history.

Ocarina - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Morricone’s works are easily recognizable due to their unusual orchestration, use of non-orchestral instruments such as clap sticks, ocarina, harmonica, electric guitar and bass, jews harp and other instruments. His works also include choirs singing nonsense lyrics and vowels, and routinely feature sopranos singing but without lyrics.

Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars

Morricone scored all 70 award winning films produced by Sergio Leone starting with A Fistful of Dollars.

He went on to write for Giuseppe Tonatore’s films beginning with Cinema Paradiso.

Morricone Composing

He composed music for such films as  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.

Some of his work was ghost written.

Ennio Morricone

His recorded works have sold in the millions worldwide and he has received numerous awards and accolades from all over the world.

Maestro Morricone has conducted his music with orchestras all over the world.