The "maestro" stick fell from the hands of the genius of world music, Italian Enio Moreconi (1928-2020), with his death at dawn Monday at the age of 91, after he was waving it to the orchestra that played for him about 500 pieces of music for the films and series "Western", romantic and comedian Drama, thriller, and horror, plus 100 classic music works, for 7 decades.

Morecone is best known for the author of The Western Spaghetti, after he came from his country Italy to spark a revolution in American western films with director Sergio Leoni, through the innovations and tools that he introduced into musical composition such as Spanish bells and guitars, harmonica and unforgettable rhythms, as if It added the vitality of the Italian spaghetti pasta to the hottest steaks of Cowboy culture.

Moreconi surprised Hollywood with a kind of soundtrack that carried many films towards immortality, which he started in the sixties of the last century with the music of "A Fistful of Dollars", then the music of the icon "Good, Bad and Ugly", until the year 2015 where his wonderful "eight hated", which granted him Oscars. So to a bunch of his movie music that changed the sound of cinema forever.

"A bunch of dollars"

1964 saw A Fistful of Dollars be the starting point for Ineo Moriconi's unique cinematic musical experience, with his fascinating music in American western films directed by his companion coach Sergio Leoni in the 1960s. She was known as "Western Spaghetti" music, which dazzled the audience watching a mysterious cowboy, "A man without a name" (Clint Eastwood), wielding a pistol in the middle of the rural town of Texas in the 19th century, to the rhythm of an amazing musical mix consisting of symphony, gunshots, guitars, bells, choral chants and whistling Flute machine; To become the first unforgettable soundtrack in cinema history, Morikoni qualified to rise globally.

For another bunch of dollars

In the following year 1965, after his amazing success, Moriconi finds the way to complete his unique experience with the team himself: Leonie is a Westwood director. He composed the music for "For a Few Dollars More", but with more genius made her sweep the world, until Leoni described it as "irreplaceable", and he was asked to compose the music before filming in order to design the film's scenes inspired Of which.

"The good, the bad and the ugly"

He comes in 1966, and Moreconi goes to the top with his third work with the "Western Spaghetti" team: Leonie Eastwood, within what was then called "three dollars"; Presenting his most famous music in the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", with classic thematic tunes with electric guitars and dramatic acoustic screams that mimic the howl of wolves. Until it became an icon associated with the name Moriconi, its popularity exceeded the film, which ranked ninth in the list of "IMDB" for the 250 largest films in history, and the "orchestras" of the world are still playing it today.

"Once upon a time in the West"

With the advent of 1968, movie audiences were on a date with a classic epic narrated by Moriconi's music in "Once Upon a Time in the West" directed by Sergio Leoni and starring Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson. Through a harmonica sound tape, he transmits all the expected components of a strange and mysterious story in a brutal Western atmosphere; A notorious desperate woman, a beautiful widow in danger, and a ruthless killer.

Once upon a time in America

In 1984, Morikoni returns with another epic of Sergio Leoni, Robert Denero, and the movie "Once Upon a Time in America", employing harmonica magic and stringed instruments to explore the meanings of friendship, lost love, time passing, and delivery A mixture of frightening and horrific feelings spread by Jewish gangs in New York, considering this work "his best work."

The Mission

In 1986, Inyo Moreconi created the merger of the Baroque choir with tribal drums, to evoke the cultural clash between the Spanish Jesuits and the Amazonian Indians in the 18th century; In his soundtrack for the movie "The Mission", which was nominated for the Academy Award at the time, and stole the spotlight directed by Roland Goofy, and the impressive performance of Robert De Niro and Jeremy Iron.

"Forbidden to touch them"

In the next world, 1987, Moricone's music put us in an atmosphere of tension, danger and the excitement of gang drama, as we watched the struggle of federal agent Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) to stop the Capone (Robert de Niro), in the movie "The Untouchables" directed by Brian de Palma , And his exciting Oscar-nominated music, won the "BAFTA" award.

"Paradiso Cinema"

In 1988, director Giuseppe Tournator inspired Maestro Moreconi a passionate melody with his story of the friendship between a young boy and a cinematographer, in "Cinema Paradiso", in which his son Andrea participated for the first time, and won the "BAFTA" award in 1990. .

The Hateful Eight

And because the journey with legend Inyo Morikoni goes on, we will have to jump to 2015, when he presented one of his greatest albums with director Quentin Tarantino, whom he considers his favorite musician and quotes his music in all his films, through new music that embodied the feeling of anxiety, uneasiness, tension and horror, in a movie "The Eight Loathed", which was received by the award at the 2016 Oscar Awards ceremony.

Moreconi won the Academic Honor Award in 2007, won 3 Golden Globe Awards, in addition to 4 Grammy Awards and 6 BAFTA Awards, and sold more than 70 million albums.

Ennio Morricone won his first Academy Award for his score for Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' pic.twitter.com/CR96Ag6pGW

- Films to Films 🎥🎬 (@FilmstoFilms_) July 6, 2020