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Tribute to Ennio Morricone

On July 6, 2020, Ennio Morricone, author of some of the finest soundtracks in Italian and world cinema, passed away. The composer was 91 and his career spanned more than 60 years.

Morricone has written music for over 500 films and TV series, many of them immortal.
His music has been used in over 60 award-winning films.
70 million records sold worldwide.
2 Oscars and over 30 other awards. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, and in 2016 the Oscar for Best Film Score for Quentin Tarantino’s The Dirty Eight . “There is no important music without a great film to inspire it” Morricone would say, thanking the director.
Collaborations that have made cinema history, such as that with Sergio Leone, the father of the Western-Spaghetti, with whom the composer had shared elementary school benches, and Giuseppe Tornatore, with whom he formed an extraordinary professional and human partnership.
Over 100 compositions of classical music, especially symphonic, with musical innovation in the wake of a master like Goffredo Petrassi.
Several arrangements for Italian pop music of the 1960s: for the famous Mina, Edoardo Vianello and the Nuova Consonanza group, as well as for the RCA Italiana label.

Pour une poignée de dollars (1964), Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand (1966), Il était une fois dans l’Ouest (1968), 1900 (1976), Les Moissons du ciel (1979), Le Professionnel (1981), Il était une fois en Amérique (1984), Mission (1986), Les Incorruptibles (1987), Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988), Bugsy (1992), La Légende du pianiste sur l’océan (1998), Malèna (2001), L’Inconnue (2006), Les Huit Salopards (2016).