For Legend of 1900, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. === Television series and last works === Morricone wrote the score for the Mafia television series La piovra seasons 2 to 10 from 1985 to 2001, including the themes "Droga e sangue" ("Drugs and Blood"), "La Morale", and "L'Immorale".
Ennio Morricone, OMRI (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles.
It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. After playing the trumpet in jazz bands in the 1940s, he became a studio arranger for RCA Victor and in 1955 started ghost writing for film and theatre.
He formally entered the conservatory in 1940 at age 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony program that he completed within six months.
He studied the trumpet, composition, and choral music under the direction of Goffredo Petrassi, to whom Morricone would later dedicate concert pieces. In 1941 Morricone was chosen among the students of the Saint Cecilia Conservatory to be a part of the Orchestra of the Opera, directed by Carlo Zecchi on the occasion of a tour of the Veneto region.
He received his diploma in trumpet in 1946, continuing to work in classical composition and arrangement.
In 1946, he composed "Il Mattino" ("The Morning") for voice and piano on a text by Fukuko, first in a group of seven "youth" Lieder. In the following years, he continued to write music for the theatre as well as classical music for voice and piano, such as "Imitazione", based on a text by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, "Intimità", based on a text by Olinto Dini, "Distacco I" and "Distacco II" with words by R.
Morricone postponed the rest of his world tour. In November 2014 Morricone stated that he would resume his European tour starting from February 2015. ==Personal life and death== On 13 October 1956, Morricone married Maria Travia, whom he had met in 1950.
Morricone received the Diploma in Instrumentation for Band Arrangement with a mark of 9/10 in 1952.
Gnoli, "Oboe Sommerso" for baritone and five instruments with words by poet Salvatore Quasimodo, and "Verrà la Morte", for alto and piano, based on a text by novelist Cesare Pavese. In 1953, Morricone was asked by Gorni Kramer and Lelio Luttazzi to write an arrangement for some medleys in an American style for a series of evening radio shows.
His studies concluded at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in 1954 when he obtained a final 9.5/10 in his Diploma in Composition under Petrassi. ==Career== ===First compositions=== Morricone wrote his first compositions when he was six years old and he was encouraged to develop his natural talents.
It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. After playing the trumpet in jazz bands in the 1940s, he became a studio arranger for RCA Victor and in 1955 started ghost writing for film and theatre.
On occasion of the "Anno Santo" (Holy Year), he arranged a long group of popular songs of devotion for radio broadcasting. In 1956, Morricone started to support his family by playing in a jazz band and arranging pop songs for the Italian broadcasting service RAI.
Morricone postponed the rest of his world tour. In November 2014 Morricone stated that he would resume his European tour starting from February 2015. ==Personal life and death== On 13 October 1956, Morricone married Maria Travia, whom he had met in 1950.
He was hired by RAI in 1958, but quit his job on his first day at work when he was told that broadcasting of music composed by employees was forbidden by a company rule.
He occasionally adopted Anglicized pseudonyms, such as Dan Savio and Leo Nichols. In 1959, Morricone was the conductor (and uncredited co-composer) for Mario Nascimbene's score to Morte di un amico (Death of a Friend), an Italian drama directed by Franco Rossi.
From 1960 to 1975, Morricone gained international fame for composing music for Westerns and—with an estimated 10 million copies sold—Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the best-selling scores worldwide.
Morricone's sophisticated arrangement of "Se telefonando" was a combination of melodic trumpet lines, Hal Blaine–style drumming, a string set, a 1960s Europop female choir, and intensive subsonic-sounding trombones.
The ensemble also performed in varying capacities with Morricone, contributing to some of his 1960s and 1970s Italian soundtracks, including A Quiet Place in the Country (1969) and Cold Eyes of Fear (1971). ===Film music genres=== ==== Comedy ==== Morricone's earliest scores were Italian light comedy and costume pictures, where he learned to write simple, memorable themes.
Most of Morricone's film scores of the 1960s were composed outside the Spaghetti Western genre, while still using Alessandroni's team.
In 1962, Morricone composed the jazz-influenced score for Salce's comedy La voglia matta (Crazy Desire).
In 1962, Morricone met American folksinger Peter Tevis, with the two collaborating on a version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty.
Some of these have been recorded, such as Ut, a trumpet concerto dedicated to Mauro Maur. ===The Group and New Consonance=== From 1964 up to their eventual disbandment in 1980, Morricone was part of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (G.I.N.C.), a group of composers who performed and recorded avant-garde free improvisations.
Tevis later recorded a vocal version of A Fistful of Dollars that was not used in the film. ===== Association with Sergio Leone ===== The turning point in Morricone's career took place in 1964, the year in which his third child, Andrea Morricone, who would also become a film composer, was born.
A Fistful of Dollars came out in Italy in 1964 and was released in America three years later, greatly popularising the so-called Spaghetti Western genre.
Since 1964, Morricone was also a founding member of the Rome-based avant-garde ensemble Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.
His first official tournament was in 1964, where he won a prize in the third category for amateurs.
From 1966 to 1980, he was a main member of Il Gruppo, one of the first experimental composers collectives, and in 1969 he co-founded Forum Music Village, a prestigious recording studio.
The film debuted in the United States in January 1967, where it grossed for the year.
Morricone's main theme for the film was reflected in Marco Beltrami's film's score of prequel of the 1982 film, which was released in 2011. ===Hollywood career=== The Dollars Trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967 when United Artists, who had already enjoyed success distributing the British-produced James Bond films in the United States, decided to release Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.
On 14 August 1968 the original score was certified by the RIAA with a golden record for the sale of 500,000 copies in the United States alone. The main theme to The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly, also titled "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", was a hit in 1968 for Hugo Montenegro, whose rendition was a No.2 Billboard pop single in the U.S.
In 1968, Morricone reduced his work outside the movie business and wrote scores for 20 films in the same year.
This was followed by his album of Morricone's music in 1968. Morricone's film music was also recorded by many artists.
From 1966 to 1980, he was a main member of Il Gruppo, one of the first experimental composers collectives, and in 1969 he co-founded Forum Music Village, a prestigious recording studio.
That same year, he received his first Nastro d'Argento for the music in Metti, una sera a cena (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1969) and his second only a year later for Sacco e Vanzetti (Giuliano Montaldo, 1971), in which he collaborated with the legendary American folk singer and activist Joan Baez.
From the 1970s, Morricone excelled in Hollywood, composing for prolific American directors such as Don Siegel, Mike Nichols, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Warren Beatty, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.
The ensemble also performed in varying capacities with Morricone, contributing to some of his 1960s and 1970s Italian soundtracks, including A Quiet Place in the Country (1969) and Cold Eyes of Fear (1971). ===Film music genres=== ==== Comedy ==== Morricone's earliest scores were Italian light comedy and costume pictures, where he learned to write simple, memorable themes.
In 1971, he received a "Targa d'Oro" for worldwide sales of 22 million, and by 2016 Morricone had sold more than 70 million records worldwide.
That same year, he received his first Nastro d'Argento for the music in Metti, una sera a cena (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1969) and his second only a year later for Sacco e Vanzetti (Giuliano Montaldo, 1971), in which he collaborated with the legendary American folk singer and activist Joan Baez.
In 1971, the composer received his first golden record (disco d'oro) for the sale of 1,000,000 records in Italy and a "Targa d'Oro" (it) for the worldwide sales of 22 million. Selected long-time collaborations with directors ==Prizes and awards== Morricone received his first Academy Award nomination in 1979 for the score to Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978).
Two years later he composed the score for the sequel to William Friedkin's 1973 film The Exorcist, directed by John Boorman: The Heretic.
The same year the composer also delivered the title theme The Men from Shiloh for the American Western television series The Virginian. In 1974–1975 Morricone wrote music for Spazio 1999, an Italian-produced compilation movie made to launch the Italian-British television series 1999, while the original episodes featured music by Barry Gray.
From 1960 to 1975, Morricone gained international fame for composing music for Westerns and—with an estimated 10 million copies sold—Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the best-selling scores worldwide.
In 1975 he scored the George Kennedy revenge thriller The "Human" Factor, which was the final film of director Edward Dmytryk.
In 1977, he composed the official theme for the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
In 1977, he composed the official theme for the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
During the existence of the group (until 1978), Morricone performed several times with the group as trumpet player. To ready his music for live performance, he joined smaller pieces of music together into longer suites.
In 1971, the composer received his first golden record (disco d'oro) for the sale of 1,000,000 records in Italy and a "Targa d'Oro" (it) for the worldwide sales of 22 million. Selected long-time collaborations with directors ==Prizes and awards== Morricone received his first Academy Award nomination in 1979 for the score to Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978).
In 1971, the composer received his first golden record (disco d'oro) for the sale of 1,000,000 records in Italy and a "Targa d'Oro" (it) for the worldwide sales of 22 million. Selected long-time collaborations with directors ==Prizes and awards== Morricone received his first Academy Award nomination in 1979 for the score to Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978).
From 1966 to 1980, he was a main member of Il Gruppo, one of the first experimental composers collectives, and in 1969 he co-founded Forum Music Village, a prestigious recording studio.
Some of these have been recorded, such as Ut, a trumpet concerto dedicated to Mauro Maur. ===The Group and New Consonance=== From 1964 up to their eventual disbandment in 1980, Morricone was part of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (G.I.N.C.), a group of composers who performed and recorded avant-garde free improvisations.
In July 2015, Quentin Tarantino announced after the screening of footage of his movie The Hateful Eight at the San Diego Comic-Con International that Morricone would score the film, the first Western that Morricone scored since 1981.
In 1982 he composed the score for John Carpenter's science fiction horror movie The Thing.
Morricone's main theme for the film was reflected in Marco Beltrami's film's score of prequel of the 1982 film, which was released in 2011. ===Hollywood career=== The Dollars Trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967 when United Artists, who had already enjoyed success distributing the British-produced James Bond films in the United States, decided to release Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.
While punk rock band the Ramones used "The Ecstasy of Gold" as closing theme during their live performances, Metallica uses "The Ecstasy of Gold" as the introductory music for its concerts since 1983.
Rock, symphonic and ethnic instruments share the stage. On 20 September 1984 Morricone conducted the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire at Cinésymphonie '84 ("Première nuit de la musique de film/First night of film music") in the French concert hall Salle Pleyel in Paris.
For Legend of 1900, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. === Television series and last works === Morricone wrote the score for the Mafia television series La piovra seasons 2 to 10 from 1985 to 2001, including the themes "Droga e sangue" ("Drugs and Blood"), "La Morale", and "L'Immorale".
Françoise Hardy – Mon amie la rose site in the reader's poll conducted by the newspaper la Repubblica to celebrate Mina's 70th anniversary in 2010, 30,000 voters picked the track as the best song ever recorded by Mina. In 1987, Morricone co-wrote It Couldn't Happen Here with the Pet Shop Boys.
Michel Legrand and Georges Delerue performed on the same evening. On 15 October 1987 Morricone gave a concert in front of 12,000 people in the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium, with the Dutch Metropole Orchestra and the Italian operatic soprano Alide Maria Salvetta.
In 2014, Morricone was misquoted, as claiming that he would "never work" with Tarantino again, and later agreed to write an original film score for Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, which won an Academy Award in 2016 in the Best Original Score category. ===Composer for Giuseppe Tornatore=== In 1988, Morricone started an ongoing and very successful collaboration with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore.
Leone died on 30 April 1989 of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Before his death in 1989, Leone was part-way through planning a film on the Siege of Leningrad, set during World War II.
By 1989, Leone had been able to acquire 100 million in financing from independent backers for the war epic.
The score is ranked 23rd on the AFI's list of 25 greatest film scores of all time. ==== Association with De Palma and Levinson ==== On three occasions, Brian De Palma worked with Morricone: The Untouchables (1987), the 1989 war drama Casualties of War and the science fiction film Mission to Mars (2000).
The international version of the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and the 1989 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
He also worked as the music supervisor for the television project La bibbia ("The Bible"). In the late 1990s, he collaborated with his son Andrea on the Ultimo crime dramas, resulting in Ultimo (1998), Ultimo 2 – La sfida (1999), Ultimo 3 – L'infiltrato (2004) and Ultimo 4 – L'occhio del falco (2013).
The New York Times Magazine listed him among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Morricone described himself as a Christian leftist, stating that he voted for the Christian Democracy (DC) for more than 40 years and then, after its dissolution in 1994, he approached the centre-left coalition. Morricone loved chess, having learned the game when he was 11.
Hayley recorded the album with Morricone's orchestra in Rome during the summer of 2010. Since 1995, he composed the music for several advertising campaigns of Dolce & Gabbana.
The same year the composer also delivered the title theme The Men from Shiloh for the American Western television series The Virginian. In 1974–1975 Morricone wrote music for Spazio 1999, an Italian-produced compilation movie made to launch the Italian-British television series 1999, while the original episodes featured music by Barry Gray.
A live-album with a recording of this concert was released in the same year. On 9 June 2000 Morricone went to the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent to conduct his music together with the National Orchestra of Belgium.
The event took place on the eve of Euro 2000, the European Football Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands. Morricone performed over 250 concerts as of 2001.
Morricone stated the following during a 2001 interview with The Guardian: "I definitely felt that I should have won for The Mission.
Morricone's score for The Untouchables resulted in his third nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Score. In a 2001 interview with The Guardian, Morricone stated that he had good experiences with De Palma: "De Palma is delicious! He respects music, he respects composers.
For Legend of 1900, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. === Television series and last works === Morricone wrote the score for the Mafia television series La piovra seasons 2 to 10 from 1985 to 2001, including the themes "Droga e sangue" ("Drugs and Blood"), "La Morale", and "L'Immorale".
The event took place on the eve of Euro 2000, the European Football Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands. Morricone performed over 250 concerts as of 2001.
The composer started a world tour in 2001, the latter part sponsored by Giorgio Armani, with the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, touring London (Barbican 2001; 75th birthday Concerto, Royal Albert Hall 2003), Paris, Verona, and Tokyo.
The project was cancelled when Leone died two days before he was to officially sign on for the film. In early 2003, Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore announced he would direct a film called Leningrad.
The composer started a world tour in 2001, the latter part sponsored by Giorgio Armani, with the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, touring London (Barbican 2001; 75th birthday Concerto, Royal Albert Hall 2003), Paris, Verona, and Tokyo.
Morricone performed his classic film scores at the Gasteig in Munich in 2004. He made his North American concert debut on 3 February 2007 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
The album Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone sold more than 130,000 copies in 2004. Metallica uses Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" as an intro at their concerts (shock jocks Opie and Anthony also used the song at the start of their XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio shows.) The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra also played it on Metallica's live albums S&M and S%26M2_.
In 2007, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music".
In 2007, he composed a lighthearted score for the Italian romantic comedy Tutte le Donne della mia Vita by Simona Izzo, the director who co-wrote the Morricone-scored religious mini-series Il Papa Buono. ==== Westerns ==== Although his first films were undistinguished, Morricone's arrangement of an American folk song intrigued director and former schoolmate Sergio Leone.
Morricone commented in 2007: "Some of the music was written before the film, which was unusual.
An instrumental metal cover by Metallica (with minimal vocals by lead singer James Hetfield) appeared on the 2007 Morricone tribute album We All Love Ennio Morricone.
Morricone performed his classic film scores at the Gasteig in Munich in 2004. He made his North American concert debut on 3 February 2007 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
The New York Times Magazine listed him among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Morricone described himself as a Christian leftist, stating that he voted for the Christian Democracy (DC) for more than 40 years and then, after its dissolution in 1994, he approached the centre-left coalition. Morricone loved chess, having learned the game when he was 11.
His other achievements include three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.
Françoise Hardy – Mon amie la rose site in the reader's poll conducted by the newspaper la Repubblica to celebrate Mina's 70th anniversary in 2010, 30,000 voters picked the track as the best song ever recorded by Mina. In 1987, Morricone co-wrote It Couldn't Happen Here with the Pet Shop Boys.
Hayley recorded the album with Morricone's orchestra in Rome during the summer of 2010. Since 1995, he composed the music for several advertising campaigns of Dolce & Gabbana.
Morricone's main theme for the film was reflected in Marco Beltrami's film's score of prequel of the 1982 film, which was released in 2011. ===Hollywood career=== The Dollars Trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967 when United Artists, who had already enjoyed success distributing the British-produced James Bond films in the United States, decided to release Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.
The tracks came originally from Morricone's scores for The Big Gundown (1966), Revolver (1973) and Allonsanfàn (1974). In 2012, Morricone composed the song "Ancora Qui" with lyrics by Italian singer Elisa for Tarantino's Django Unchained, a track that appeared together with three existing music tracks composed by Morricone on the soundtrack.
On 4 January 2013 Morricone presented Tarantino with a Life Achievement Award at a special ceremony being cast as a continuation of the International Rome Film Festival.
In 2014, Morricone was misquoted, as claiming that he would "never work" with Tarantino again, and later agreed to write an original film score for Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, which won an Academy Award in 2016 in the Best Original Score category. ===Composer for Giuseppe Tornatore=== In 1988, Morricone started an ongoing and very successful collaboration with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore.
Back in June 2014, Morricone had to cancel a US tour in New York (Barclays Center) and Los Angeles (Nokia Theatre LA Live) due to a back procedure on 20 February.
Morricone postponed the rest of his world tour. In November 2014 Morricone stated that he would resume his European tour starting from February 2015. ==Personal life and death== On 13 October 1956, Morricone married Maria Travia, whom he had met in 1950.
In July 2015, Quentin Tarantino announced after the screening of footage of his movie The Hateful Eight at the San Diego Comic-Con International that Morricone would score the film, the first Western that Morricone scored since 1981.
Morricone postponed the rest of his world tour. In November 2014 Morricone stated that he would resume his European tour starting from February 2015. ==Personal life and death== On 13 October 1956, Morricone married Maria Travia, whom he had met in 1950.
In 1971, he received a "Targa d'Oro" for worldwide sales of 22 million, and by 2016 Morricone had sold more than 70 million records worldwide.
He was nominated for a further six Oscars, and in 2016, received his only competitive Academy Award for his score to Quentin Tarantino's film The Hateful Eight, at the time becoming the oldest person ever to win a competitive Oscar.
A soundtrack album was only released on CD in 2016 and on LP in 2017.
In 2014, Morricone was misquoted, as claiming that he would "never work" with Tarantino again, and later agreed to write an original film score for Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, which won an Academy Award in 2016 in the Best Original Score category. ===Composer for Giuseppe Tornatore=== In 1988, Morricone started an ongoing and very successful collaboration with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore.
A soundtrack album was only released on CD in 2016 and on LP in 2017.
Ennio Morricone, OMRI (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles.
He once held GM Boris Spassky to a draw in a simultaneous competition with 27 players, where Morricone was the last one standing. On 6 July 2020, Morricone died at the Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, aged 91, as a result of injuries sustained during a fall. == Influence == Ennio Morricone influenced many artists from other styles and genres, including Danger Mouse, Dire Straits, Muse, Metallica, Radiohead and Hans Zimmer. Morricone's influence extends into the realm of pop music.
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