Ennio Morricone
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Ennio Morricone (born November 10, 1928; sometimes also credited as Dan Savio or Leo Nichols) is an Italian composer
especially noted for his film scores. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 400 film and television productions,
more than any other composer living or deceased. He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks
of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) which have been freque ...read more
From Wikipedia.org.
Ennio Morricone (born November 10, 1928; sometimes also credited as Dan Savio or Leo Nichols) is an Italian composer
especially noted for his film scores. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 400 film and television productions,
more than any other composer living or deceased. He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks
of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) which have been frequently cited by many in the film industry as some
of the greatest film scores ever composed.
Although only 30 of his film scores are for Westerns, it is these for which he is best known. His more recent notable
compositions for film include the scores for The Mission (Roland Joffé, 1986), The Untouchables (Brian DePalma, 1987),
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988), Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997) and Malèna (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2000). He received
the Honorary Academy Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) in 2007 (although he never won an Oscar in competition), only
the second film composer to do so (the first being Alex North).
Morricone makes no qualitative distinction between his film scores (which he collectively calls « hide |
