Ennio Morricone, Iconic FIlm Composer, Has Died At Age 91

Ennio Morricone, Iconic FIlm Composer, Has Died At Age 91

류지미 2023. 8. 14. 18:17

 

 

Ennio Morricone(1928-2020)

Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 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 has 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 in 2010.

 

His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all Sergio Leone's films since A Fistful of Dollars, all Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, as well as The Battle of Algiers (1968), 1900 (1976), La Cage aux Folles (1978), Le Professionnel (1981), The Thing (1982), and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989). He received Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for Days of Heaven (1978), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), Malèna (2000) and The Hateful Eight (2016), winning for the latter.  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 recognizable and influential soundtracks in history. 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. Throughout his career, he composed music for artists such as Paul Anka, Mina, Milva, Zucchero, and Andrea Bocelli. 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.  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. He continued to compose music for European productions, such as Marco Polo, La piovra, Nostromo, Fateless, Karol, and En mai, fais ce qu'il te plait.

 

Morricone composed for Hollywood directors such as Don Siegel, Mike Nichols, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Warren Beatty, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino. He has also worked with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Mauro Bolognini, Giuliano Montaldo, Roland Joffé, Roman Polanski, Henri Verneuil, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. His best-known compositions include "The Ecstasy of Gold", "Se telefonando", "Man with a Harmonica", "Here's to You", "Chi Mai", "Gabriel's Oboe", and "E Più Ti Penso". He has influenced many artists including Hans Zimmer, Danger Mouse, Dire Straits, Muse, Metallica, Fields of theNephilim, and Radiohead.

Ennio Morricone - Wikipedia

On 6 July 2020, Morricone died at the Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, aged 91, as a result of injuries sustained to his femur during a fall. Following a private funeral in the hospital's chapel, he was entombed in Cimitero Laurentino.

 

Composer Ennio Morricone, posing with his Oscar for The Hateful Eight in 2016. He died Monday at age 91 in Rome.

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Awards and honors

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Ennio Morricone

Morricone receives the Per Artem ad Deum Medal (English: "Through Arts to God") from Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.

 

 

Morricone received his first Academy Award nomination in 1979 for the score to Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick,1978). He received his second Oscar nomination for The Mission. He also received Oscar nominations for his scores to The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), Malèna (2000), and The Hateful Eight (2016). In February 2016, Morricone won his first competitive Academy Award for his score to The Hateful Eight.  Morricone and Alex North are the only composers to receive the Academy Honorary Award since its introduction in 1928.  He received the award in February 2007, "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music."

 

In 2005, four film scores by Ennio Morricone were nominated by the American Film Institute for an honoured place in the AFI's Top 25 of Best American Film Scores of All Time.  His score for The Mission was ranked 23rd in the Top 25  list. Morricone was nominated seven times for a Grammy Award. In 2009 The Recording Academy inducted his score for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2010 Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Björk won the Polar Music Prize. The Polar Music Prize is Sweden's biggest music award and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. It was founded by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989. A Variety poll of 40 top current film composers selected The Mission as the greatest film score of all time.

 

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.  In 2007, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music". 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.  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. The The Mission (1986) soundtrack was certified gold in the United States. The album Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone stayed for 105 weeks on the Billboard Top Classical Albums.

Ennio Morricone - Wikipedia

Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning Italian film composer, dies aged 91

at dawn on 6 July 2020 in Rome .

 

Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose symphonic scores backed everything from spaghetti westerns to romance, horror and sci-fi films, has died aged 91.

 

Morricone had broken his femur days ago and died during the night in a clinic in Rome. His death was confirmed by his lawyer, Giorgio Assumma. In a statement, Assumma said that the composer “died at dawn on 6 July in Rome with the comfort of faith. He preserved until the final moment full lucidity and great dignity.

 

“He said goodbye to his beloved wife Maria, who accompanied him with dedication in every moment of his human and professional life and was close to him until his final breath, and thanked his children and grandchildren for the love and care they have given him. He gave a touching remembrance to his audience, whose affectionate support always enabled him to draw strength for his creativity.”

 

Morricone wrote his own obituary, which was read out by Assumma. “I, Ennio Morricone am dead. Thus I announce it, to all my friends who have always been close to me and also to those who are a little far away, whom I greet with great affection,” it begins. He says it is “impossible to name everyone” but mentions members of his family and close friends, closing with words for his wife: “I renew to you the extraordinary love that has held us together, and I am sorry to abandon you. To you the most painful farewell.”

영화음악의 거장 엔니오 모리꼬네를 추모하며

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR0hkVIsCo4 

조회수 87,443회 2020. 7. 6.

 

영화음악의 거장 엔뇨 모리코네의 생애와 음악을 기리며 삼가 명복을 빕니다.

 

Ennio Morricone - C'era una Volta il West (In Concerto - Venezia 10.11.07)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc1h4kfj4B4 

조회수 9,398,926회 2011. 12. 21.

 

Song taken from the movie of the same name, performed in the magical setting of San Marco's square in Venice and directed by Ennio Morricone himself.

 

Brano tratto dal film omonimo, eseguito nella magica cornice di piazza San Marco a Venezia e diretto dallo stesso Ennio Morricone.

Deborah's Theme (Once Upon a Time in America)---Ennio Morricone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuyYc0gINbU 

 

Once Upon A Time In The West (Finale)---Ennio Morricone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMd6D1Gw1g 

 

Morricone conducts Morricone: The Mission (Gabriel's Oboe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-IeNR9ko 

조회수 11,602,566회 2020. 7. 11. #EnnioMorricone #TheMission

 

Live recording at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, 20 October 2004, The Mission's main theme performed by Munchen Radio Orchestra under the direction of Morricone himself and recorded by Giovanni Morricone.

 

 

BEST OF ENNIO MORRICONE - The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEoolHGE2Kc 

조회수 1,924,798회 최초 공개: 2023. 1. 14. #WendyKokkelkoren #EnnioMorricone #TheMaestro

 

A tribute compilation out of respect for the grand master Ennio Morricone. We made a compilation of our best Ennio Morricone performances!

 

Timestamps:

00:00 - 04:07 Once Upon a Time in the West

04:08 - 07:54 Nella Fantasia

07:55 - 11:03 La Califfa

11:04 - 14:27 Chi Mai

 

About Guido Dieteren (The Maestro): Guido Dieteren (1974) is an orchestra leader, violin soloist, arranger and composer. He grew up in a special musical Limburg (The Netherlands) family. Guido's great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all conductors and with it his great musical examples. At an early age, Guido established his name as a concertmaster and soloist of various orchestras and then continued his career as a conductor, violinist and soloist with his own orchestra.Since then, he has played successful concert tours throughout Europe, China and North America.

 

During his conservatory study in Maastricht, Guido approached his childhood friend and pop keyboard player Falco Borsboom to compose, arrange and work on a new rousing orchestral production. Guido's Orchestra was born (now known as "The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra")!

 

Since then, The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra has experienced many musical highlights. Together with his orchestra, Maestro Guido has provided concerts all over the world, composed and arranged music for commercials (such as McDonald's, Rabobank, WWF, Dela, and AllSecur), played in several international TV shows, released several gold CDs and DVDs, produced large TV specials in all known world languages and performed live for more than 2.7 million visitors. Guido also collaborated as musical director and was involved artistically with many (inter)national artists such as Lionel Richie, Andrea Bocelli, Diana Ross, DJ AfroJack, Simply Red, Caro Emerald, Alessandro Safina, Marco Borsato, Doe Maar, Anouk, Jan Smit, Nick and Simon, Paul de Leeuw and many others.

 

Guido's heart is not only taken by The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra and his passion for music. No, he also married the orchestra's solo soprano, Wendy Kokkelkoren, in 2006. After the first concert together, the spark caught on and since then, they have been inseparable. Together with their daughters Emma-Sophie and Annabel, Guido and Wendy form a happy musical family.

 

Artistic wishlist in the coming years, new TV Specials and songs will be recorded. The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra wants to perform in many countries, like: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Poland, France, Italy, Brazil, South Korea, Philippines, China, Japan, Taiwan.

 

Please spread the word to family and friends! Make some advertisement for The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra, and we will be soon performing in your beautiful country! Have a look at our beautiful live video performances from productions filmed worldwide, some of our other clips and community. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube fan Channel!