Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died. ... His father was a trumpet player.

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 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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Italian composer Ennio Morricone — known for scoring spaghetti Westerns and more than 500 films — died Monday in Rome at the age of 91. His lawyer, Giorgio Assumma, confirmed his death after ...