Often cited as a key creator of the Spaghetti Western soundscape, Ennio Morricone is doubtlessly one of the most prolific and versatile composers in the history of cinema. With nearly 400 screen ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a moving favorite -- Ennio Morricone's Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso. This performance is from the 2018 Opus Klassik awards in Berlin. Two superstar soloists -- violinist ...

“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 Oscar for ...

Last week, the legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone died, leaving behind a remarkably deep catalog of work that spans multiple eras of filmmaking. Like John Williams or Hans Zimmer, he was ...

When the late, great writer-director Samuel Fuller finished shooting what turned out to be his final Hollywood studio film, in 1981, his producer Jon Davison asked who he had in mind to compose the ...

Giuseppe Tornatore's portrait of the Oscar-winning composer of 'The Hateful Eight,' 'Mission' and 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' will get a special, out-of-competition screening in Venice. By Scott ...

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 joined ...

You could make a strong case that the late Italian master Ennio Morricone is the greatest film-score composer who has ever lived. Morricone started off in 1961, and he scored hundreds of movies before ...

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life ...