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Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer born on 10 November 1928 in Rome, Italy, and he passed away on 6 July 2020 in the same city. A favorite pupil of his father, who was a trumpeter in a light music orchestra, Morricone developed a dual musical identity. He embraced serialism and the experimental work of an improvisation group while also taking on a leading role as an arranger in various mass-media popular music, including radio, television plays, and early variety shows. Morricone gained wider recognition through his collaborations on a series of four Westerns and worked with renowned directors such as Roland Joffé. Despite some self-repetition across more than 400 film scores, his work exemplified a unique blend of classical and popular styles. In addition to his film compositions, Morricone's non-film works, which utilize his technique of ‘micro-cells,’ have become increasingly performed. Among his accolades, Morricone won the Academy Award in 2016 for his score for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and received five Academy Award nominations from 1979 to 2001, a Grammy, a Leone d'oro, and an honorary degree from the University of Cagliari. He also taught film music at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena from 1991 to 1996.

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