Ennio Morricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian classical composer famous for making movie scores. He has composed the scores for more than 500 movies and television programs. He was well known for composing the scores to Western movies, particularly Spaghetti Westerns. In 2007 he received the Honorary Academy Award for his many great movie scores. In his career, the composer sold over 50 million records worldwide.
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Information source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone.
Ennio married Maria Travia On 13 October 1956, whom he had met in 1950. They had three sons and a daughter.
Morricone wrote his first compositions when he was six years old and was encouraged to develop his natural talents.
After graduating in 1954, Morricone started to write and arrange music as a ghost writer for films credited to already well-known composers, while also arranging for many light music orchestras of the RAI television network, working especially with Armando Trovajoli, Alessandro Cicognini and Carlo Savina. He occasionally adopted Anglicized pseudonyms, such as Dan Savio and Leo Nichols.
Morricone's earliest scores were Italian light comedy and costume pictures, where he learned to write simple, memorable themes.
The turning point in Morricone's career took place in 1964, the year in which his third child, Andrea Morricone, who would also become a film composer, was born. Film director Sergio Leone hired Morricone, and together they created a distinctive score to accompany Leone's different version of the Western, A Fistful of Dollars (1964).
Morricone's score for Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the best-selling original instrumental scores in the world today, with up to 10 million copies sold.
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My deepest gratitude to Ennio, who turned this ugly world in something a little more beautiful. Rest in peace.
