Ennio Morricone (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]) was an italian composer (born 10 November 1928, Rome, Italy - died 6 July 2020, Rome, Italy). A favourite pupil of [a776673], he also deputized secretly for his trumpeter father in a light music orchestra. He thus developed two distinct sides to his musical personality: one of these led him to embrace serialism and the experimental work of the improvisation group [a146775]; the other gained him a leading role, principally as an arranger, in all types of mass-media popular music, including songs for radio, radio and television plays, and the first successful television variety shows. After many minor cinematic collaborations, Morricone achieved wider recognition with [a=Sergio Leone]'s series of four Westerns. There followed important collaborations with directors such as [a1549141], [a467451], [a3153386], [a4424119], [a4424126], [a4424127] and [a4424108]. Despite inevitable self-repetitions over a total of more than 400 film scores, his work provides many examples of a highly original fusion of classical and popular idioms. Morricone's non-film works form a large and increasingly widely performed part of his output. Many of them use his technique of ‘micro-cells’, a pseudo-serial approach often incorporating modal and tonal allusions, which, with its extreme reduction of compositional materials, has much in common with his film-music techniques. Among honours, he won the Academy Award in 2016 for his score to [a=Quentin Tarantino]'s The Hateful Eight and has received five Academy Award nominations between 1979 and 2001, a Grammy and a Leone d'oro, and was awarded the Laurea ad Honorem by the University of Cagliari. Between 1991 and 1996 he taught film music at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena.

Released: 2014-04-19

Label: AMS (3)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

A1	Il Buono, Il Brutto Il Cattivo	2:38
A2	Il Tramonto	1:14
A3	Fuga A Cavallo	1:05
A4	Il Ponte Di Corde	1:51
A5	Il Forte	2:19
A6	Il Deserto	5:14
A7	La Carrozza Dei Fantasmi	2:06
A8	La Missione San Antonio	2:13
A9	Padre Ramirez	2:36
A10	Marcetta	2:49
B1	La Storia Di Un Soldato	5:30
B2	Fine Di Una Spia	1:12
B3	Marcetta Senza Speranza	1:48
B4	Morte Di Un Soldato	3:07
B5	L'Estasi Dell'Oro	3:20
B6	Il Triello	7:14