If you’ve watched a handful of Westerns and/or a decent number of movies produced in Italy before, there’s a good chance you’ve run into an Ennio Morricone score or two in your time. As far as ...

"I never thought music would be my destiny." Music Box Films has revealed a brand new US trailer for the documentary film titled Ennio, a biopic doc about the legendary Italian film composer Ennio ...

Ennio Morricone was born in Rome on 10 November 1928. His long artistic career includes a wide range of composition genres, from absolute concert music to applied music, working as orchestrator, ...

“You must always make a nice melody,” Libera Ridolfi told her young son, Ennio. “That’s how you will become famous.” Sticking to that script led Ennio Morricone to become one of the most popular ...

The legendary composer has died at the age of 91. "With great sadness, we say goodbye to a big master of cinema," tweeted Banderas, whose 1989 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! was scored by Morricone.

When it comes to soundtrack maestros, few are esteemed as Ennio Morricone. The Italian cinematic legend's musical legacy is filled with more high-water marks than seems humanly possible, and not just ...

The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary “Ennio” is its length: 2 1/2 hours. Far too short! Morricone scored hundreds of films, some of which are enduring masterpieces, and his work for ...

We have been writing about classical music for our dedicated and knowledgeable readers since 1923 and we would love you to join them. Subscribing to Gramophone is easy, you can choose how you want to ...

The maestro was a man of routine. Besides not talking much about his work, which consisted of some of the most memorable film scores in movie history, he was a quiet man of prayer. Every morning at ...

After the death of Ennio Morricone, TIME asked film composers to reflect on his impact and legacy. The 20th century was the era of film music, and the world just lost one of that century’s true giants ...

When "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" premiered in 1967 in the U.S., the critics were not impressed. The New York Times called it, quote, "the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history ...