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Ennio Morricone

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Ennio Morricone

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Also known as Dan Savio, Leo Nichols

Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (1928–2020)

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Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) was an Italian conductor, pianist, film score composer, and music arranger. Born in Rome, he began his professional work in 1946. Morricone studied at the Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia, where he was a student of Goffredo Petrassi and later served as an employee. He played the piano and trumpet, and his musical output has been categorized under genres including cinematic classical, classic soundtrack, and avant-garde.

Throughout his career, Morricone received several major honors, including the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Nastro d'Argento for Best Score, the Grammy Trustees Award, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour. He was also nominated for the European Film Award for Best Composer and Golden Raspberry Awards. His discography includes works released on Virgin Records, and he is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. Morricone had a son named Andrea Morricone and used the pseudonyms Dan Savio and Leo Nichols.

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Person · Open Library

Works
23

Top works

  • Film music 1966-1987
  • Chi Mai
  • Ennio
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Genii, VIP e gente comune

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Film & TV

Sound · Rome, Italy

Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He…

Known for

  • Quelli che il cinema — Self2025
  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America — Self2022
  • Ennio — Self2022
  • Concerto commemorativo del Maestro Ennio Morricone2022
  • We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)2021
  • The Legal Death2018
  • Sad Hill Unearthed — Self - Film Composer (1966)2018
  • Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende — Self (archive footage)2018
  • Morricone & Tarantino at Abbey Road Studios — Self2016
  • Emigratis — Self2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1928
Active to
2020
absolute musicavant-gardecinematic classicalclassic soundtrackclassicalcomposer

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

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1,837,269
Total plays
44,778,960

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Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (10 November 1928 - 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player. He composed a wide range of music styles, making him one of the most versatile, experimental and influential composers of all time, working in any medium. Since 1946 Morricone composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ennio+Morricone">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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  2. Radiofrequency Ablation vs Antiarrhythmic Drugs as First-line Treatment of Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation

    · 2005 · cited 908x

  3. The Toll and Imd pathways are the major regulators of the immune response in Drosophila

    · 2002 · cited 829x

  4. Neural dynamics of form perception: Boundary completion, illusory figures, and neon color spreading.

    · 1985 · cited 822x

  5. Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

    · 2019 · cited 816x

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Ennio Morricone, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Ennio Morricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, 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.

His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all of Sergio Leone's films from A Fistful of Dollars on, all of Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, as well as The Battle of Algiers (1966), 1900 (1976), La Cage aux Folles (1978), Le Professionnel (1981), The Thing (1982), The Key (1983) by Tinto Brass and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989). He received the Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), Malèna (2000) and The Hateful Eight (2015), winning for the last. He won the Academy Honorary Award in 2007. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is regarded as one of the most influential soundtracks in history. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.

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