Italian composer Ennio Morricone at an earlier Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin. Picture: JOHANNES EISELE / AFPEnnio Morricone, one of the world's most prolific composers of film scores notably for spaghetti westerns, died in Rome on Monday at the age of 91.
Morricone died in hospital where he was being treated for a fractured femur after a fall, according to a statement from lawyer and family friend Giorgio Assuma. “We will remember forever and with infinite gratitude the artistic genius of maestro Ennio Morricone,” Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.
Italian film actress Monica Bellucci said of Morricone that “there are people who have the ability to make the world better because they know how to create beauty”, while Gilles Jacob, the former head of the Cannes film festival, described him as the “emperor” of film music.
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