"The Maestro" died at 91, the unique style of Ennio Morricone will have influenced generations of composers, and marked all genres of cinema
A sacred monster which has just disappeared. Ennio Morricone died on Monday in Rome at the age of 91, reports Italian news agency Ansa. The Italian composer and conductor had been hospitalized in an Italian clinic for a few days following a fall according to the same media.
Giant of the 7th art, Ennio Morricone composed among more than 500 film scores including those, of course, of Sergio Leone and his spaghetti westerns ( "Once upon a time in the West", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly "," Duck, You Sucker! "," Once upon a time in America "...). His works have now entered the collective memory but he had to wait until 2016 to win an Oscar for the soundtrack to The Hateful Eight, directed by Quentin Tarantino, after a first Oscar of honor to his career awarded in 2007.
If the Roman composer wrote his first classical work in 1957, he made his mark by composing and arranging for song and television. Classically trained, the artist quickly became interested in experimental music, an eclecticism that will illuminate his unclassifiable work. Born in Rome in 1928, he began his career in film music in 1961 with Il federale by Luciano Salce. But it is his meeting with Sergio Leone three years later that will really launch his international career with the score of the film For a few dollars more. At that time, he also joined the avant-garde improvisation and composition group Nuova Consonanza.
He will put this wealth at the service of the 7th art by composing for great directors like Pasolini -several films-, Bertolucci (1900), Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan), Malick (Days of Heaven), Joffé (The Mission) or Lautner (The Professional). Along with John Williams, Ennio Morricone was certainly the most successful commercial film composer with more than 70 million records sold during his career. In 2016, the maestro again published Morricone 60, a celebration of his immense work through a first album where he directed, recorded, and selected his greatest successes himself.
Italy did not fail to pay tribute to the great maestro. “We will remember forever and with infinite recognition the artistic genius of Maestro Ennio Morricone. He made us dream, it moved us and made us think, writing unforgettable notes that will remain forever in the history of music and cinema, "responded Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Twitter.
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