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'MOST PAINFUL GOODBYE': Ennio Morricone, Italian composer famous for Westerns, dies at 91

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ROME — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” helped define a cinematic era, died on Monday.

He was 91.Morricone broke his femur 10 days ago and died at dawn in a clinic in Rome, his lawyer Giorgio Assumma told Reuters.Outside the clinic, Assumma handed reporters a death notice written by the composer himself, beginning “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.”In a moving one-page text, Morricone thanked his close friends and family for their companionship, naming his children and grandchildren and saying “I hope they understand how much I loved them.”He dedicated “the most painful goodbye” to his wife Maria Travia, whom he married

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