Artist
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.
Tracks
A1
Speranze Di Liberta'
A2
La Ballata Di Sacco E Vanzetti (I Parte)
A3
Nel Carcere
A4
La Ballata Di Sacco E Vanzetti (II Parte)
A5
Sacco E Il Figlio
B1
La Ballata Di Sacco E Vanzetti (III Parte)
B2
Liberta' Nella Speranza
B3
E Dover Morire
B4
La Sedia Elettrica
B5
Here's To You
Releases
Formats
Vinyl, Cassette, CD
Labels
Music On Vinyl, RCA, RCA Victor, RCA International, RCA Italiana, Acqua Records, GDM, RCA Original Cast, RCA Gala, Goodfellas, Omega , Records Verlagsges. mbH
Countries
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Peru, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe
years
1971, 1972, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2005, 2016, 2020
