Music composer Ennio Morricone dies at 91

6th July: The Italian music composer, Ennio Morricone has died at 91.

According to reports, the oscar-winning music composer whose symphonic scores backed everything from spaghetti westerns to romance, horror and sci-fi films, has died today.

Morricone’s longtime lawyer, Giorgio Assumma, told the Associated Press that the composer died early Monday in a Rome hospital of complications following a fall, in which he broke a leg.

Morricone had composed music for more than 500 film and television shows in his 50-years career. Initially, he was associated with “A Fistful of Dollars” director Sergio Leone, for whom he scored six films, including “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once Upon a Time in America.”

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Established in his own right, Morricone turned out classic scores for films such as “Days of Heaven,” “Bugsy,” “Cinema Paradiso,” “The Untouchables,” “La Cage aux Folles” and “Battle of Algiers.”

Morricone was a favorite of all critics, directors, and music composers. The movie ‘The Mission’ in 1986 was voted the best film score in a 2012 variety poll. On his sixth nomination, he finally won a competitive Oscar, in 2016, for his score for Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had awarded Morricone an honorary Oscar in 2007.

He also occasionally did live performances in which he conducted orchestra and choruses in both his film music and concert pieces he composed.

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Born in Rome in 1928, Morricone took up the trumpet and wrote his first composition aged six. He studied classical music and after graduating began writing scores for theatre and radio. He was hired as an arranger by the label RCA in Italy and also began writing for pop artists; his songs became hits for Paul Anka, Françoise Hardy, and Demis Roussos, and he later collaborated with Pet Shop Boys. He also made boundary-pushing avant-garde work with Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza, a collective of experimental, improvisational composers.

If there is a common thread to Morricone’s work, it’s the mixing of that raw and romantic, expressed with a blend of unlikely instruments to create excitement, suspense, joy, and pathos — sometimes all in the same film.

Morricone is survived by his wife, Maria Travia, whom he married in 1956, and their four children.

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