Ennio Morricone wasn’t just the most important film composer of the 20th century, he was also the busiest. Morricone, who died Monday in Rome at age 91, is best known for his early work with ...

A new posthumous Ennio Morricone collection, Morricone Segreto, featuring seven previously unreleased tracks, will be released November 6th via CAM Sugar/Decca Records, Variety reports.

The first posthumous Ennio Morricone album is ready for release. Four months after the Oscar-winning composer’s death in July, Morricone’s home label Decca Records and Italy’s CAM Sugar have ...

From nine simple notes, a welter of potent, bittersweet emotions. Bernstein also noted that Morricone “saw himself as a full partner in telling stories on-screen.” And that made him a rarity ...

Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning composer of more than 500 film scores, has died at the age of 91. The Italian musician leaves behind an extraordinary body of work that includes collaborations ...

Eighty-seven-year-old maestro Ennio Morricone says it is only when audiences see the pictures on screen entwine with his music that he can finally be excited by what he has created. The legendary ...

The harmonica melody in Once Upon a Time in the West. In his 70-year career, Ennio Morricone has composed the scores for over 500 movies, reinventing its role and defining the sound of the Italian ...

“At first, I thought making music for the cinema was humiliating,” the late film composer Ennio Morricone once said. “By writing, I got my revenge.” That comeuppance came in the form of an ...

It’s hard for me to recall the most vivid moments in “Mission to Mars,” Brian De Palma’s outer-space drama from 2000, without hearing the great music of Ennio Morricone. That probably isn ...

ROME – Italy on Monday cheered Ennio Morricone’s Oscar victory for composing the original score for Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” which marks the first competitive Oscar won ...

Every morning at about 6 a.m., Ennio Morricone was out on the streets of Rome to get that day’s newspapers and to pray at the nearby Church of the Gesù. It was a routine that caught the eye of ...

His lawyer Giorgio Assumma handed reporters an obituary written by the composer himself outside the clinic where Morricone died, Reuters reports. It begins “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.” ...