Ennio Morricone, Gifted Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91
- Morricone wrote music for Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns
- Score from ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ remains iconic
Ennio Morricone, the classical composer and conductor who scored director Sergio Leone’s so-called Spaghetti Westerns and about 500 other movies before winning an Oscar in 2016, has died. He was 91.
Morricone died Monday at a hospital in Rome from complications after a fall, Ansa news agency reported, citing the composer’s family lawyer and friend, Giorgio Assumma.