Listen to Ten Essential Ennio Morricone Scores
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variety.comJon Burlingame Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at the age of 91, wrote more than 400 original film scores, many of which have entered the classic movie-music pantheon.
While trying to narrow them down to the 10 best is an impossible task, here, in chronological order, are an essential 10: This was the most popular of the maestro’s Western scores, for the last of Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy.
With an indelible, coyote-inspired main theme and now-famous “Ecstasy of Gold” cue, a cover version went to No. 2 on the U.S.
pop charts. An off-key harmonica is not only central to the score but also to the plot of Sergio Leone’s operatic masterpiece, about the coming of the railroad to a tiny Western town.
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