Film composer Ennion Morricone has died

Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who came to prominence with the Italian western “A Fistful of Dollars” and went on to write some of the most celebrated movie scores of all time, has died. He was 91.

It was a 1960s recording made in Rome of the Woody Guthrie song “Pastures of Plenty” that launched Morricone’s international career. The seemingly incongruous mixture of sounds in the orchestration — surging violins, the crack of a whip, church bells, an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar, chimes and a chanting male chorus — so entranced Leone that he ditched his original choice of composer and hired Morricone to score what became 1964’s “A Fistful of Dollars.

“These three elements: the oboe, the native music and Western music taught by the Jesuits had to be combined into a whole,” Morricone said in an English translation on the BBC program. “The union of these elements is very important. In them I see myself, spiritually and technically.” The recording of “Pastures of Plenty” sealed the deal for Morricone to write the music for “Fistful of Dollars,” and his unorthodox, upfront score for the film starring Clint Eastwood was credited with helping it become a worldwide success.

In all, they did six films together, ending with “Once Upon A Time in America” , which had one of Morricone’s most melodic scores. Leone died in 1989.Among other directors that Morricone worked with multiple times were Bertolucci, Federico Fellini, Brian De Palma and Roland Joffe.

Another accomplished old guy who DIDN'T die of Covid .

RIP Sergio. I have always the theme to “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on my playlist.

il mio orecchio il mio cuore. La personalità dell’oboe dice (respiro), “..🎼fiore di campo..”🌻

Rest In Peace:

Please correctly spell his name.

A great loss to cinema and music.

*Ennio. RIP.

R.I.P. Sir, thank you for your magic! We will miss you always.

Brilliant composer. RIP

That's what privilege looks like...50 years in the business or any business in America.

He and Elmer Bernstein were probably the best.

RIP ❤

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