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Maestro Ennio Morricone

In Memoriam: Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)

Maestro Morricone—who passed on July 6 in Rome, the city of which he was a lifelong resident—was one of the most unique and prolific of film score composers. Having written music for some 500 films, and having worked with an extraordinary array of talented directors, his music could range from lush, symphonic tracks, to minimalist, throbbing electronic pieces, and also to the very quirkily orchestrated, offbeat, but highly memorable, works that became a bit of a signature for him—particularly for the Italian made Westerns such as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Morricone typically wrote scores simply by reading […]