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Legend of film music: Ennio Morricone to 90.

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His music is a cult. He composed the famous spaghetti westerns such as “play me the song of death,” his tone breathed, but over 500 film scores. Now Ennio Morricone is celebrating his 90.



How often Hollywood has tried to lure him to America. One has even offered him a Villa in vain, but he refused. Can’t English, he also, he had in vain tried to learn it, he admitted recently to the dpa. And now – with almost 90, it was already too late. And Ennio Morricone is Romans, body and soul.

How it all began

In the city on the Tiber he saw on the 10. November 1928 in the district of the light of the world Trastevere. His father Mario Morricone was a trumpet player and quickly realized that Filius had tanned his musical Talent. At the age of six composed by Ennio his first pieces, with the Twelve, the parents sent him to the Conservatory, where he first learned the trumpet play. A Council of his father, who was able to feed the family. He himself, Ennio Morricone, would not have chosen it, for his heart burned for composing. So he learned also, and the four-year study completed in half the time – a natural talent.

“A filmmaker has to ask me”

After the training Morricone earned his living first as a jazz trumpeter in night clubs before he landed jobs at the theatre and in the record industry and finally a job as a music assistant took the Italian television channel RAI Televisione. Among other things, he arranged to there Songs for the famous Tenor Mario Lanza, was in the 1950s thanks to his Hollywood films, the most famous Opera singers in the world.

Ennio Morricone can look back on an eventful life

Whether the Ennio brought Morricone to the idea, to write film music? “I needed money and thought this would be a good idea,” he told time. “But I applied for anyone in the film industry. I thought: ‘A filmmaker has to ask me because he believes that what I write is good.’ And so it happened that a Director approached me, then another one, another one and so on.”

Success with the Italo-Western

In 1961, he was 33 years old, composed by Ennio Morricone for the first time, the music for an entire movie: “Il Federale” by Luciano Salce. Three years later, the international breakthrough came with his world-famous Soundtrack to Sergio Leone’s “a fistful of dollars” (1964) with the then-unknown Clint Eastwood in the main role.

“For a fistful of dollars” not only was Morricone famous, but also the main actor Clint Eastwood

With Sergio Ennio had pressed once went to school together, and the old friend gave him the soundtrack for the film “the good, the bad and the ugly” (1966) and “play me the song of death” (1968). The Western wrote film history, not least the merit of Morricone’s incomparable music with the haunting harmonica including coyotes howling and wheezing Wind. Ennio net worth with his music-things that need to be in the pictures would have shown,” stressed Director Leone.

 

More than just Western

Until today, to connect him with the seven films that he had written for the “Spaghetti Western”Director Sergio Leone, Morricone. He had composed in his career, the music for over 500 films. “If you scroll through the movies I’ve worked on, you will see that I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action movies, horror movies, and so on. With other words: I’m not a specialist, because I did everything. I am a music specialist.”

In fact, Morricone composed for Directors such as Roman Polanski (“Frantic”), John Carpenter (“The thing from another world”) or Brian de Palma (“The untouchables”). Movies like “1900” by Bernardo Bertolucci, Roland joffé’s Drama, “Mission”, Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso” or Henri Verneuil mafia epic “The Clan of the Sicilians” bear his musical signature.

All want his Sound

Already in 1965, had joined Morricone the experimental group “Gruppo mainly improvisation liquidazione Nuova Consonanza”, was committed to the search for novel sounds.

Famous as a composer and conductor: Maestro Morricone

His wealth of ideas was the Best of the film Guild on his door Quentin Tarantino knock including. Used some of his pieces in the films “Kill Bill”, “Inglorious Basterds” and “Django Unchained”, but a whole Soundtrack did not want to write Morricone long for him – but in “The Hateful Eight” after all. “Tarantino did not just loose,” he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung once in the Interview. “He visited me in Rome, his enthusiasm has me convinced. “But also this famous Director, the Maestro quickly made his rules clear: “I need to see the final version of the film, before I can even think only about the music, let alone write.”

Finally, the Oscar

The cooperation bore fruit, because in 2016, got Morricone’s “The Hateful Eight” finally the long-awaited Oscar for the best film music.

Five times he had been already nominated, and always left empty-handed. In 2007, he had received the honorary Oscar for his life’s work, but that didn’t matter. He remembered well what it was like to not be recognized, so Morricone. “Because I always thought I deserved it. Everyone knew that I earned it.” In 2016, he did not want to arrive to the ceremony in Hollywood in the first place, because he had been disappointed often. A sore point: “Although the recognition of the audience is actually much more important than those of the Academy. In the 60s, the conservative Academy was, unfortunately, completely deaf to innovative sounds.”

And then Ennio Morricone was able to join him, but in the long range of prices, he has, in the course of his life won. Both of the Oscars he has dedicated to his wife Maria, with whom he’s since 1956 married. Finally, it was not so easy, it’s so long at his side to endure.

In 2007, Morricone received the honorary Oscar, 2016, and finally earned the long-for the best film music

On Farewell Tour

Film music not composed by Morricone for a short while, but he still stands at the lectern and on the podium. Shortly before his 90. Birthday on the 10. In November he begins his farewell tour with two stops in Russia. In Germany, he will be the last concert on the 21. January in Berlin and many of his famous compositions present. Not so many, he said once with a wink: “You remember what composed by Bach, and how much Mozart in 33 years, has written, and you can see, I’m unemployed.”

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