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 than ...

The famed composer made soundtrack music that lived on its own. Each piece was an expressive universe unto itself. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images For years, I held that as a sign of what a ...

It is the 18th century, somewhere in the rainforest between Northeastern Argentina and Eastern Paraguay. A solitary Jesuit missionary by the name of Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons), ant-like against the ...

Born in 1929, the masterful composer Ennio Morricone, who died this week at the age of 91, made his entrance into the world just after the advent of synchronized cinematic sound. The Jazz Singer had ...

Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone, who left an indelible musical imprint on film genres as varied as "spaghetti westerns" and epic gangster dramas, died on Monday in Rome at the age of 91 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — All Ennio Morricone asked of Quentin Tarantino, after committing to score his new Western, “The Hateful Eight,” was that the director feature his music prominently and give it the ...

Italian helmer Giuseppe Tornatore’s (“Cinema Paradiso”) documentary “Ennio,” on the late music composer Ennio Morricone, features a pantheon of commentators influenced by the maestro’s scores, from ...

Ennio Morricone is not just the most prolific film composer of the past 50 years. His is also one of the most innovative voices in the history of the art form. Although he’s been nominated only five ...

There are just a select few who inarguably belong in the pantheon of great film composers; Ennio Morricone is one. However, just as the film for which he has received his sixth Oscar nomination, ...

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.” This was the statement released by Ennio Morricone’s lawyer when the prolific composer departed. An obituary written by the maestro himself, Morricone instructed the ...