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- 50 years of movie magic. On 6 July 2020, it was announced that movie music maestro Ennio Morricone has died in Rome. As the music and film world mourns one of its greats, we honour the incredible contribution of the man who penned over 500 movies and TV series, won hearts, and changed the sound of cinema forever.
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Moviegoers got to see Clint Eastwood's inscrutable 'man with no name' for the first time in Sergio Leone's pioneering Spaghetti Western.
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The third film in the so-called 'Dollars Trilogy' following 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'For a Few Dollars More'.
- Once Upon a Time in the West. An epic story with all the expected ingredients - a mysterious stranger (with harmonica), a notorious desperado, the beautiful widow in danger, and a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Ennio Morricone's classical compositions include over 15 piano concertos, a trumpet concerto, 30 symphonic pieces, choral music, one opera and one mass. His first classical pieces date back to the late forties.
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- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) “[I wanted] to evoke the coyote’s voice in order to convey the idea of animal violence in the Wild West,” Morricone said.
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) The opening track is as operatic and mournful as the movie’s title; the next cut (“As A Judgment) is all skeletal, sharp guitars (Morricone said he wanted them to “wound the audience’s ears”) and what sounds like a hot wind blowing through a graveyard before a horn section comes in.
- The Thing (1982) No slouch in the film-score–composing department, John Carpenter nonetheless sought out one of his idols to work on the soundtrack to his remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic.
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Sergio Leone had been talking about his magnum opus, a gangster film about the rise and fall of two Jewish mobsters, for decades; when he finally got the chance to make would turn out to be his final film, he naturally enlisted his old partner to come up with a score.
- “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966) This was the most popular of the maestro’s Western scores, for the last of Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy.
- “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) An off-key harmonica is not only central to the score but also to the plot of Sergio Leone’s operatic masterpiece, about the coming of the railroad to a tiny Western town.
- “1900” (1976) The maestro composed an expansive, symphonic masterwork for Bernardo Bertolucci’s five-hour epic of Marxism and fascism in Italy starring Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Gerard Depardieu.
- “Days of Heaven” (1978) Morricone’s first Oscar-nominated score was a gentle, wistful reverie for Terrence Malick’s poetic story of love and greed on a turn-of-the-century Midwestern farm.
His best-known compositions include "The Ecstasy of Gold", "Se telefonando", "Man with a Harmonica", "Here's to You", "Chi Mai", "Gabriel's Oboe", and "E Più Ti Penso". He has influenced many artists including Hans Zimmer, [10] Danger Mouse, [11] Dire Straits, [12] Muse, [13] Metallica, [14] Fields of the Nephilim, [15] and Radiohead. [16]
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Nov 10, 2023 · Explore the top 10 best Ennio Morricone film soundtracks, including his most famous works for spaghetti westerns and other genres. Listen to clips of his iconic themes for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, and more.
Jul 6, 2020 · 1. “The Dollars Trilogy” (1964-1966). The trio of films Morricone made with Leone and Clint Eastwood upended film scoring much as the Beatles were upending pop music during that same period.
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