Morricone’s father was a professional trumpet player who wanted Ennio to follow in his footsteps. So in 1940, when he was 12, Ennio entered the Saint Cecilia Conservatory and learned to play the ...

With his substantial documentary “Ennio,” director Giuseppe Tornatore — who worked with Morricone for nearly all his films, including 1988’s “Cinema Paradiso” — turns an overdue ...

Morricone’s father was a professional trumpet player who wanted Ennio to follow in his footsteps. So in 1940, when he was 12, Ennio entered the Saint Cecilia Conservatory and learned to play the ...

Morricone’s father, Mario, was a trumpet player, and soon Ennio was playing it, too. He began composing music as a child and studied it formally at a conservatory in Rome, where one of his ...

Some of the Italian composer's most memorable film scores were recorded at Forum Studios in Rome's Parioli neighborhood.

Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at age 91, was, of course, famed as the outrageously prolific and inventive film composer of such classics as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” one of his more ...

Morricone died in 2020 at age 91, pre-writing his own three-sentence obituary, the first sentence of which was: “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.” Most of the composer interview footage Tornatore ...

Ennio Morricone was born on Nov. 10, 1928, in a residential area of Rome. His father, Mario, was a trumpet player, and the trumpet was the first instrument the youngster played. He began writing ...

Ennio Morricone was the movies. Turn on a Morricone soundtrack, close your eyes, and be transported to a genre paradise of gunslinging action, lush eroticism, and heart-stopping beauty.

The 87-year-old Ennio Morricone, who this year is nominated for his sixth Academy Award, ... Morricone played trumpet in jazz bands in the 1950s and eventually became a studio arranger for RCA.

After playing the trumpet in jazz bands in the 1940s, he became a studio arranger and then started ghost writing for film and theater. ... Composer Ennio Morricone has passed away at the age of 91.

Composer and conductor Ennio Morricone performs in the Paul VI Hall during a Concert at Vatican for the Jubilee Year closing on November 12, ... Morricone's father Mario, was a trumpet player.