Film Music Maestro Ennio Morricone Passes Away

Died 5 Days After Treatment for Femur Fracture
Master Composer of Over 400 Film Scores
Notable Works Include 'The Outlaw Josey Wales', 'Cinema Paradiso', and 'The Mission'

Ennio Morricone (left) won the Best Original Score at the 2016 Academy Awards for the film The Hateful Eight. On the right is director Quentin Tarantino.

Italian film composer Ennio Morricone has passed away at the age of 93. According to local media such as La Repubblica on the 6th (local time), Morricone recently suffered a femur fracture due to a fall. He was receiving hospital treatment and died the night before.

Born in Rome, Morricone was a maestro who composed music for over 400 films. He majored in trumpet, composition, arrangement, and choral conducting at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. Although he showed passion for pure music, premiering an orchestral concerto at the La Fenice Theatre in Venice in 1960, he struggled with severe financial difficulties and took on arrangements for radio and television.

Morricone began composing film music starting with "Il Federale" (1961). He gained worldwide fame by blending classical and pop music with intense energy. His first notable film was Sergio Leone’s Italian western "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964). He often used simple melodies with electric guitar, oboe, and pan flute, while creating elegant melodies with solid bass lines and Baroque sensibility.

His representative works include Terrence Malick’s "Days of Heaven" (1978), Leone’s "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), Roland Joff?’s "The Mission" (1984), Giuseppe Tornatore’s "Cinema Paradiso" (1988), Wolfgang Petersen’s "In the Line of Fire" (1993), Barry Levinson’s "Disclosure" (1994), and Glenn Gordon Caron’s "Love Affair" (1994). He became an inspiration to film composers worldwide and received an honorary award at the 2007 Academy Awards in the United States.

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