Novecento Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary and modern classical works. His scores have been included in over forty award-winning films. In a career lasting over six decades, he composed some of the most recognizable film scores in cinematic history.

Ennio Morricone is considered one of the greatest composers in film history and has composed theme songs for cult films such as Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Few Dollars More, Cinema Paradiso, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, Kill Bill and most recently Django Unchained. The Essential Ennio Morricone is the ultimate double album with the greatest hits of this icon of film music. Morricone is a legend and the only composer to receive an Oscar for his lifetime achievement. He was also nominated for five other Oscars and received two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes. Morricone's extraordinary music mixes influences from classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic and Italian music to create epic and emotional soundscapes of incomparable intensity. The Essential Ennio Morricone contains over 2 1/2 hours of music and all of Morricone's classics and hits. Not just for fans of film music: The Essential Ennio Morricone is the essential Morricone collection.

Ennio Morricone es probablemente el compositor de cine más famoso del siglo XX. También es uno de los compositores más prolíficos en cualquier medio. Ha realizado varios cientos de películas durante las últimas décadas, tal vez hasta 500. Aunque éstas han sido de casi todos los estilos musicales imaginables (y para casi cualquier tipo de película imaginable), se le conoce principalmente por el estilo "spaghetti Western" de las bandas sonoras, del cual él fue pionero al proporcionar el fondo musical para las películas del director Sergio Leone. La paleta de Morricone es extraordinariamente diversa, con influencias de la música clásica, el jazz, el pop, el rock, la música electrónica, avant-garde e italiana, entre otros estilos

Ennio Morricone is probably the most famous film composer of the 20th century. He is also one of the most prolific composers working in any medium. No exact figure is available, but he's scored over 500 films over several decades, plus many dozens of classical works. While his film scores have been in almost every imaginable musical style (and for almost every imaginable kind of movie), he is most identified with the "spaghetti Western" style of soundtracks, which he pioneered when providing the musical backdrop for the films of director Sergio Leone. Morricone's palette is extraordinarily diverse, drawing from classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic, avant-garde, and Italian music, among other styles. Esteemed by such important figures in modern music as John Zorn (not to mention contemporary directors like Martin Scorsese), he is increasingly placed among not just the finest soundtrack composers, but the most important contemporary composers of any sort.