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Oscar-winning film composer Morricone passes away

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Published: 11:19, 6 July 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Oscar-winning film composer Morricone passes away

Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning film composer, has died in Rome at the age of 91.

He breathed his last in a hospital having fractured his femur in a fall some days ago, according to Italian news agency Ansa.

Morricone is best known internationally as the composer behind the instantly recognizable melodies from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Once Upon a Time in the West."

The prolific composer also wrote music for The Untouchables and Cinema Paradiso.

The Italian composer was famous for the tension-filled scores of spaghetti Westerns, and won an Academy Award for his soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" in 2016, after five previous nominations and an Honorary Award in 2007 that recognized his lifetime's achievement.

Morricone, who was simply known as "Maestro" in his home town of Rome, scored more than 500 films over seven decades.

Yet he remains best known for the haunting melodies he wrote for the trilogy of 1960s westerns Sergio Leone made with the then little-known Eastwood.

A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly centred around Eastwood's taciturn gunslinger, known as "The Man With No Name"._Agencies

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