The great conductor, Maestro Riccardo Muti, remembers Maestro Ennio Morricone: "A Maestro towards whom I had friendship and admiration. Extraordinary musician not only for film music but also for classical compositions. We will miss him – adds the great conductor – as a man and as an artist." – Maestro Riccardo Muti was music director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan from 1986 to 2005. Since 2010 he has been Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, USA, founded in 1891 and one of the five great American orchestras.
The great conductor, Maestro Riccardo Muti, remembers Maestro Ennio Morricone: "A Maestro towards whom I had friendship and admiration. Extraordinary musician not only for film music but also for classical compositions. We will miss him – adds the great conductor – as a man and as an artist." – Maestro Riccardo Muti was music director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan from 1986 to 2005. Since 2010 he has been Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, USA, founded in 1891 and one of the five great American orchestras.Maestro Ennio Morricone – Who was he
Maestro Ennio Morricone (Rome, 10 November 1928 – Rome, 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, conductor and arranger. Ennio Morricone studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, in Rome, where he graduated first in trumpet and then in composition, under the guidance of the composer Goffredo Petrassi; he has written the music for more than 500 films and TV series, as well as works of contemporary music. His career includes a wide range of compositional genres, making him one of the most important, prolific and influential film composers of all time. Morricone's music has been used in more than 60 award-winning films. As a young arranger of the RCA Italiana record company, at the time active in Rome, he also contributed to forming the sound of the Italian sixties , packaging songs such as Sapore di sale, Il mondo, Se telefonando, and the successes of Edoardo Vianello, Dino, Gianni Meccia and above all Gianni Morandi. 
Since 1946 he has composed more than one hundred classic songs, but what gave Morricone worldwide fame as a composer were the music produced for the genre of the Italian western, which led him to collaborate with directors such as Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari, Franco Giraldi, Giulio Petroni, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, with titles such as the Dollar Trilogy, A Gun for Ringo, The Showdown, The Great Silence, The Mercenary, My Name is Nobody and the Time Trilogy. From the seventies Morricone became a prominent name in Hollywood cinema, composing music for American directors such as John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, Mike Nichols, Terrence Malick, Oliver Stone, Roman Polański and Quentin Tarantino. Morricone has written the music for numerous Academy Award-nominated films such as Days of Heaven, Mission and The Untouchables. 
In 2007 he received the Honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement "for his magnificent contributions to the art of film music" after being nominated five times between 1979 and 2001 without ever having received the award. On February 28, 2016, he won his second Oscar for the scores of Quentin Tarantino's the Hateful Eight. Morricone has also won three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Silver Ribbons, two European Film Awards, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and a Polar Music Prize. He has also sold more than 70 million records. He was Effective Academician of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and a member of the Nuova Consonanza association engaged in Italy in the dissemination and production of contemporary music. 
On February 26, 2016 , he was awarded star number 2574 on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. On 27 December 2017 he received the honor of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the second degree in order of importance. Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone
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Il Maestro Ennio Morricone – Video
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For me Maestro Ennio Morricone, in the future, will be considered the Italian Mozart of Cinema. Maybe a hundred years will pass, two hundred years, but this is what will happen.
It's the same thing that African-American producer Quincy Jones said (link to biography), who produced, in 1982, Michael Jackson's Thriller album, the best-selling album in the entire history of world music.
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I close this article on Maestro Ennio Morricone, with the video in which he receives the second Oscar of his life, the first for the soundtrack of a film (the one of 2007 was honorary, to the career), after having lived for more than half a century without ever having won a single of the numerous nominations of his long career as a composer. In the following video , Master had turned 87.
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What Maestro Morricone represents for me
The Music of Maestro Ennio Morricone, is a sublime, absolute, timeless music, the most beautiful music I have ever heard in my life.
When I listen to the Maestro's Music, the soundtracks of masterpieces such as Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, I feel like I'm dying inside, all the time.
Society, life, also makes you die inside, every day, in wickedness, in pain, in human misery, in war, in horrendous diseases, in the atrocious death of children, of the innocent, in the extermination camps, in the hell of hunger, of prisons, of hospitals, in the absurdity of society and life.
The music of the Maestro, on the other hand, makes you die inside all the times, but for the joy, the absolute purity of his Art.
As Antonio Salieri said in the film "Amadeus" dedicated to Mozart, "it is a music of such beauty … "
It is the music that I will perhaps find in Heaven, provided that there is a God waiting for us for eternal bliss, after having given us this life on Earth.
Thank you Maestro, for your wonderful Music, your sublime Art. We will miss you so much. With esteem, gratitude and affection, Roberto 💖
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