Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Chapters: Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Lorenzo Ferrero, Giorgio Moroder, Matteo Sommacal, Albert Verrecchia, Goblin, Marco Betta, Ludovico Einaudi, Giuseppe Becce, Stefano Lentini, Aidan Zammit, Mirko Fait, Alessandro Cicognini, Stefano Mainetti, Piero Piccioni, Stelvio Cipriani, Francesco De Masi, Mario Nascimbene, Claudio Simonetti, Christian De Walden, Nicola Piovani, Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, Alessandro Alessandroni, Bruno Nicolai, Pino Donaggio, Riz Ortolani, Gian Piero Reverberi, Paolo Rustichelli, Pier Paolo Polcari, Giorgio Gaslini, Piero Umiliani, Fabio Frizzi, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Armando Trovaioli, Renzo Rossellini, Vittorio Gelmetti, Giovanni Fusco, Louis Siciliano. Excerpt: Ennio Morricone,Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: , (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor. For over five decades he has composed and arranged music for more than 400 motion pictures including some award-winning film scores as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. He wrote the characteristic film scores of Leone's Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). In the 80s, Morricone composed the scores for Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988). His more recent compositions include the scores for The Legend of 1900 (1998), Malèna (2000), Fateless (2005), and Baaria - La porta del vento (2009). Morricone has received two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, five BAFTAs during 1979 1992, seven David di Donatello, eight Nastro d'Argento, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010. In 2007, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music". The composer also has been nominated for five Oscars in the category of Best Original Score during 1979 2001, but has never won competitively. Ennio Morricone was born in Rome, the son of Libera and Mario Morricone, a jazz trumpeter. Morricone wrote his first compositions when he was six years old and was encouraged to develop his natural talents. Compelled to take up the trumpet, he attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. Morricone formally entered the conservatory in 1940 at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony program. According to various reports, he completed it in either two years or six months (date approximate). He studied the trumpet, composition, choral music, and choral direction under Goffredo Petrassi, who deeply influenced
