Italian composer Ennio Morricone, whose haunting scores to spaghetti westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly helped define a cinematic era, has died at the age of 91.
Italian news agency ANSA said Morricone broke his leg some days ago and died on Monday night at a clinic in Rome.
Born in Rome in 1928, Morricone wrote scores for some 400 films, but his name was most closely linked with the director Sergio Leone, who he worked with on classic Spaghetti Westerns as well as Once Upon a Time in America.
Morricone worked in almost all film genres, from horror to comedy, and some of his melodies are perhaps more famous than the films he wrote them for.
During a career that spanned decades and earned two Oscars, Morricone collaborated with some of the most-renowned Italian and Hollywood directors, in movies including The Untouchables by Brian de Palma, The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino and The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo.
Morricone used unconventional instruments such as the Jew's harp, amplified harmonica, mariachi trumpets, cor anglais and the ocarina — an ancient Chinese instrument shaped like an egg.
The music was accompanied by real sounds such as whistling, cracking of whips, gunshots and sounds inspired by wild animals including coyotes.
Morricone was born on November 10, 1928, in a residential area in Rome.
His father, Mario, was a trumpet player, and the trumpet was the first instrument the youngster played. He began writing music at age six.
Morricone first met Leone in elementary school, although the pair did not reconnect until roughly two decades later, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Morricone attended the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied under Goffredo Petrassi, a major Italian composer.
He always tried to shake off the association with the spaghetti westerns, reminding people, particularly outside Italy, that he had a very creative and productive life before and after the films he made with Leone.
"It's a strait-jacket. I just don't understand how, after all the films I have done, people keep thinking about A Fistful of Dollars. People are stuck back in time, 30 years ago," the Maestro, as he was known in Italy, said in 2007.
"My production for westerns is maybe seven-and-a-half or 8 per cent of what I have done overall."
Reuters/AP
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