Yesterday marked the birthday of the late Italian composer and musician Ennio Morricone, who was born on November 10, 1928 and died on July 6, 2020. He was an Italian musician who had many works, especially in the field of soundtracks. He composed and composed more than 500 films and television productions, more than any other musician. His most famous works are the tunes and musical clips that characterized the films of the Italian director Sergio Leone, known as the Spaghetti Western films, A Fist Full of Dollars, For More Dollars, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in America, and of course we do not forget the wonderful music of the movie “Cinema Paradiso”. And others..
Despite this, the Western films for which he composed the soundtracks do not exceed thirty films. He composed the music for a number of famous films such as The Mission, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso, Lolita, and Millenia. Morricone won the Academy Award for Best Original Soundtrack in 2016 for the film The Haters. The eight. He won an Academy Award of Honor in 2007, won 3 Golden Globe Awards, in addition to 4 Grammy Awards and 6 BAFTA Awards, and sold more than 70 million albums.
Morricone was born in Rome and studied at the Conservatoire (Saint Secilia National Academy of Music) on the trumpet as a composer and choral music director. He learned his craft from composer Goffredo Petrassi. In 1956, he married Maria Travia.
In 1964, he began his successful artistic work with Sergio Leone (they studied together in the same department at school) and Bernardo Bertolucci. At this time he composed the soundtracks for films such as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Since then, he has been composing film music for about 15 films a year.
