Movie music maestro Ennio Morricone is a living legend. He has composed more than 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 music works, and is one of only two film composers in history to have received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement. On Wednesday, you can have the unique opportunity to see him at the Papp László Sportaréna. There are still a few tickets available, but first, grab a bottle of Italian red and let us take you through his best movie music.
A Fistful of Dollars
A co-operation between Sergio Leone and Morricone catapulted the Italian composer to movie-score stardom. For Leone's 1964 pioneering Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars, Morricone created a soundtrack backdropped by Spanish guitars, whistling and bells. This is one of his best-known works.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly For the third instalment in the Dollars trilogy – a sequel to A Fistful of Dollars – Morricone created a score that set a standard not only for Westerns, but for movie music in general. No cowboy scenes can be re-enacted without humming this song, full stop.
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Once Upon a Time in the WestMorricone composed this soundtrack for the 1968 Western of the same name and sold about ten million copies worldwide. The score features leitmotifs that relate to each of the main characters of the movie (each with their own theme music), as well as to the spirit of the American West.
Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 drama inspired some of the most moving and melodic music by Morricone. He composed the BAFTA-winning score together with his son Andrea.
The Hateful Eight The Hateful Eight is the soundtrack album to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture of the same name. The score features notable horror references including Morricone's repurposed score from The Thing. The soundtrack won a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2016.
+1 Fateless The soundtrack for Fateless, Return to Life, made our list as it was created for a film based on a Nobel-winning Hungarian book. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
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