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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.
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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.
- A Fistful of Dollars
- For A Few Dollars More
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Once Upon A Time in The West
- The Thing
- Once Upon A Time in America
- The Untouchables
- Cinema Paradiso
- Malena
- The Hateful Eight
A Fistful Of Dollars, one of Ennio Morricone’s best film soundtracks, was his first collaboration with Sergio Leone and was followed by For A Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966). The original liner notes for A Fistful of Dollarsnoted that “the music matches the excitement note for note, shot for shot” and Morricone’s m...
For A Few Dollars More was the sequel to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western A Fistful Of Dollars. Ennio Morricone’s atmospheric film soundtrack, including whistling, wordless vocals, and the chimes of a watch, builds the tension and complements the dramatic storyline.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Ennio Morricone’s most famous film soundtrack, was the third movie in Sergio Leone’s ‘Dollars Trilogy’ starring Clint Eastwood. The iconic main theme represents the howling of a coyote and includes sounds of gunfire, whistling, and wordless vocals providing the perfect setting for this spaghetti western. This soundt...
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In The West, starring Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson, was released just after the ‘Dollars Trilogy.’ Ennio Morricone’s haunting score features evocative themes for each of the main characters. In a highly unorthodox move, Leone asked Morricone to finish the score before filming had begun, so he could play the music ...
Ennio Morricone’s haunting score for director John Carpenter’s sci-fi/horror film The Thing is notable for being one of the composer’s earliest electronic scores. Although John Carpenter often composed his own scores, he was too busy to compose the soundtrack for The Thingand commissioned Morricone, as he wanted a more European sound for the film.
Sergio Leone’s gangster epic Once Upon A Time In Americawas the great director’s final film. Ennio Morricone’s melancholic score, evoking a nostalgic sense of loss, won a BAFTA Award. Morricone developed musical themes for the film’s characters, including one of his greatest pieces, “Deborah’s Theme,” featuring wordless vocals by Edda Dell’Orso.
Brian De Palma’s prohibition-era drama The Untouchables follows the story of mob boss Al Capone (Robert De Niro). Ennio Morricone’s thrilling score was the first of three collaborations (The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission to Mars) between the composer and the director. His soundtrack, capturing all the tension and poignancy of the storyli...
Ennio Morricone’s beautiful score for Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso, the story of a boy’s friendship with a cinema projectionist, evokes the film’s themes of love and nostalgia and is one of Morricone’s best soundtracks. Tornatore won the award for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars in 1989, and Morricone’s soundtrack won the BAFTA for Original...
Ennio Morricone’s bittersweet score for Giuseppe Tornatore’s Sicilian coming-of-age film Malena, starring Monica Bellucci, was nominated for an Oscar. The movie itself was panned by critics, but Morricone’s soundtrack is among his best.
Ennio Morricone surprisingly won his first Oscar for Best Original Soundtrack in 2016, at the age of 87, for The Hateful Eight directed by Quentin Tarantino. Although Tarantino had previously used pieces by Morricone in his films, this was the first time he had commissioned any composer to write an original film score. This was also the first time ...
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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.
YearTitleDirectorNotes1960Orchestrations only Score composed by ...1960Orchestrations only Score composed by ...1960Orchestrations only Score composed by ...1960Rejected score Replaced by Armando ...- ‘The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’ (1966) Once Upon A Time In The West might be Morricone’s masterpiece, but he never wrote anything more memorable, more evocative and more downright iconic than The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
- ‘Once Upon A Time In The West’ (1968) The grandest of Morricone’s westerns, his work on Leone’s sprawling opus is just as harsh, complex and violent as the film itself – a rough-hewn, end-of-the-world symphony that builds from ugly, dying harmonicas to a full-blown opera.
- ‘Cinema Paradiso’ (1988) Morricone’s best score for director Giuseppe Tornatore is his most romantic – a wide-eyed, romantic love letter to cinema itself that’s about as far away from his overwrought cowboy epics as you can get.
- ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ (1984) When Leone decided to switch genres and make the ultimate American gangster movie, he tasked Morricone with writing a score that sounded just as iconic as his westerns.
Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles.
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