For me, the most beautiful western ever made is "Once Upon a Time in the West" with the magnificent music by Ennio Morricone. Haven't seen the film yet? Rent it, buy it, download it, or borrow it. You simply must see this film!
Ennio Morricone OMRI (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpeter who composed and orchestrated the music for approximately 500 films and television series. He also composed around a hundred pop songs (for artists including Mireille Mathieu, Milva, and Mina) and about 150 classical compositions, such as an opera, a dozen violin and piano concertos, and chamber music. He is also the winner of an Oscar for Best Original Score, which he received in 2016 at the age of 87. This makes him the second-oldest Oscar winner ever.
Ennio Morricone is among the most influential composers of his generation. Morricone's first compositions date back to the 1940s. Morricone's extensive and varied oeuvre includes music for over 70 award-winning films, including all of Sergio Leone's films from the Dollars Trilogy, such as Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, all of Giuseppe Tornatore's films from Cinema Paradiso, The Battle of Algiers, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Exorcist II, Days of Heaven, various successful French films, such as La Cage aux folles, and various Hollywood films, including The Thing, Roland Joffé's The Mission, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987), Barry Levinson's Bugsy (1991), Mike Nichols' Wolf (1994), Mission to Mars (2000), and Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight (2015). Morricone's music was also extensively used in, among others, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (2003–2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012), The Boat That Rocked, and series such as The Simpsons and The Sopranos.[3]
With over 10 million copies sold, Once Upon a Time in the West became one of the most successful instrumental soundtracks worldwide. His film scores for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Mission are considered influential. In the United States, both soundtracks achieved gold status (RIAA). The composer sold over 70 million scores, compilations, and singles worldwide, including over 6.5 million in France, more than three million in the United States[7], and over two million albums in Korea. In 1971, Ennio Morricone received his first gold record (Disco d'Oro) for selling 1 million records in Italy and a "Targa d'Oro" for worldwide sales of 22 million records.
Morricone performed at a sold-out Ahoy in 2017. Two years prior, he gave a performance at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. Morricone lived to be 91 and was still performing. The Italian composer died in a Rome hospital due to injuries from a fall, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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