R.I.P. Ennio Morricone

Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America”, died on Monday. He was 91.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterNews this week that Ennio Morricone, the composer of numerous timeless film scores, had died at the age of 91 was met with an outpouring of grief and tribute from the international film community.

Todd McCarthy When the late, great writer-director Samuel Fuller finished shooting what turned out to be his final Hollywood studio film, in 1981, his producer Jon Davison asked who he had in mind to compose the score.

The vast Western landscapes soundtracked by Ennio Morricone during his singular career as a film composer are a long way from the bright lights of clubland. But the electronic music community certainly took influence from the enduring soundscapes of the iconic Italian composer.

The Thing filmmaker John Carpenter has paid tribute to the late Ennio Morricone’s work on his horror film.Carpenter, who usually scored his own films, was suggested “Maestro Morricone” by the film’s associate producer Stuart Cohen, due to Morricone’s experience in “experimental music, a strange place,” the filmmaker recalls.Read more: Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone’s 10 best film scoresCarpenter explained to IndieWire how The Thing theme came to be, through close collaboration “It was all way too

Muse and Metallica to Radiohead and The Last Shadow Puppets.

Ennio Morricone, the late, great composer for the movies, was the mastermind behind so many of your favorite soundtracks.

Legendary composer Ennio Morricone has died, aged 91, due to complications following an operation. His passing was confirmed by the composer himself, in a statement read by his lawyer outside the hospital where he died, titled “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead”.With a prolific output throughout his adult life, Morricone composed scores for more than 500 films.

South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo joined the world to mourn the loss of Ennio Morricone. The week began on a heartbreaking note as the Italian media confirmed Morricone passed away recently.

Also Read: Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Film Composer, Dies at 91“I finally broke down. And it was the maestro that made me break down,” Tarantino told TheWrap’s Steve Pond back in 2015 upon the release of “The Hateful Eight.” “I didn’t know if it was going to work out, but I felt I owed it to myself and I owed it to him to investigate it.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen I heard that Ennio Morricone had died, at 91, my first thought was that the cinema had lost one of the most romantic of all screen composers. Morricone, who worked with filmmakers from around the world but rarely left his native Rome (he insisted on not speaking in any language but Italian), wrote movie scores suffused with romance, with gorgeous waves of yearning and heartbreak and rapture and lyric melancholy.

Brandon Choe Photo EditorOscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at 91, scored more than 400 movies and TV shows, as well as more than 100 classical pieces.

Ennio Morricone was a uniquely famous film composer, one of the very few whose work is recognisable enough to be parodied. Yet the subject of those parodies – his scores for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns – formed a tiny part of an immense output.

Metallica‘s James Hetfield has paid tribute to Ennio Morricone, the legendary film composer whose death at the age of 91 was announced earlier today (July 6).Morricone, who scored over 500 films, most famously Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, died last week following complications from a fall.One of his best-known compositions ‘The Ecstasy Of Gold’, from the soundtrack to The Good The Bad And The Ugly, has been used by Metallica as their intro music since 1983.Writing on Metallica’s Instagram,

Today, it’s being reported that Oscar-winning composer and film legend Ennio Morricone has passed away at the age of 91, due to complications from a recent fall. To say that Morricone is one of the most influential composers in film history is an understatement.

Hans Zimmer has paid tribute to fellow composer Ennio Morricone, whose death at the age of 91 was announced earlier today (July 6).Morricone, who scored over 500 films, most famously Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns including The Good The Bad And The Ugly, died last week following complications from a fall.Writing on Twitter, Inception, Gladiator and The Lion King composer Zimmer paid homage to Morricone and posted a picture of the two of them together.Ennio.The first note I ever heard of his

Also Read: Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Film Composer, Dies at 91“With great sadness, we say goodbye to a big master of cinema. His music will keep playing in our memories.

Jon Burlingame Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at the age of 91, wrote more than 400 original film scores, many of which have entered the classic movie-music pantheon. While trying to narrow them down to the 10 best is an impossible task, here, in chronological order, are an essential 10: This was the most popular of the maestro’s Western scores, for the last of Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy.

ROME — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” helped define a cinematic era, died on Monday. He was 91.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and The Mission (1986) are among the best-known and most accomplished ever written. In 2016 he won the Oscar for best original score for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.But Morricone always kept his distance from Hollywood and made a point of remaining in his native Italy, even politely refusing to learn English.