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Ennio Morricone, born November 10, 1928, is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 30 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including 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), but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the world's most versatile, prolific and influential artists.
Born in Rome, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film. 
In the 1950s he received the "Diploma in Instrumentation for Band" (fanfare) where he won a diploma in Composition under the composer Goffredo Petrassi. In 1955, Morricone started to ghost write and arrange music for other, already established film composers. Morricone soon came to the attention of his former school friend Sergio Leone, who hired Morricone to compose the music to some of his best known films. Together they created a distinctive score to accompany Leone's different version of the Western, A Fistful of Dollars.
In the 80s and 90s, Morricone continued to write the music for Leone's later films, including Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He also composed the music to 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 Malèna (2000), Fateless (2005), Baaria - La porta del vento (2009) and The Best Offer (2013).
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" and has been nominated for a further five Oscars in the category of Best Original Score during 1979–2001, but has never won competitively.

Track Listing:
01. Once Upon a Time In the West
02. The Man With the Harmonica
03. Frantic
04. For a Few Dollars More
05. My Name Is Nobody
06. Cockeye's Song
07. The Untouchables
08. The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
09. Death Theme
10. A Fistfull of Dollars
11. Chi Mai
12. Moses Theme
13. Orient Express
14. I'm Gonna Love You
15. A Gun For Ringo
16. Good Luck Jack
17. A Fistfull of Dynamite
18. La Libertad
19. Le Train
20. Bye Bye Colonel

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Soundtrack, Folk, Classical
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 1988
Speelduur: 68 minuten
Cover: Frontje is in de RARs verwerkt