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He never had the public recognition he deserved unfortunately. I'm still surprised at how many people can whistle many of his pieces without knowing who he is.
by maaaaattttt 6y ago
He never had the public recognition he deserved unfortunately. I'm still surprised at how many people can whistle many of his pieces without knowing who he is.
- kleiba 6y agoAre you sure about that? At least in Europe, Morricone has long been recognized as one of the great.
- maaaaattttt 6y agoMy statement is biased by my own experiences I admit. Maybe the honorary Oscar he received in 2007 is somewhat a more objective illustration of what I meant.
- klackerz 6y agoHe did get an Oscar for The Hateful Eight in 2015, though.
- andi999 6y agoHe should have gotten one for 'the good, the bad, the ugly'. Didnt check though who else got it that year.
- kleiba 6y agoThis one did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free (original score by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer) ) Fun fact: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly did not receive an academy award nomination in any category.
- toyg 6y agoLeone’s movies were consistently discounted by US critics.
- SeanLuke 6y agoHe should have gotten one for The Mission. Gabriel's Oboe is, I think, his most beautiful theme.
- rorykoehler 6y agoWe had practically a whole semester on his work in my music undergrad degree for the film composition module.
- flobosg 6y agoIn Chile at least he was huge. His concerts there sold out quickly.
- hirako2000 6y agoHe is such a genius he probably opened his sincere mouth with whoever issue official recognition. He probably never cared for public fame.
- toyg 6y agoNot about fame, but he definitely cared about the money: his work has been constantly (ab)used in advertising since forever.
- hirako2000 6y agoSo did the beatles songs. I'm not sure licensing creation to ads is a sigh of loving money. Could even be the opposite: his songs may have been the most affordable quality melodies licensed for ads.
- ACS_Solver 6y agoMy impression is that he's very well known here in Europe. Sure, not as much as whoever the year's pop sensation is, but Morricone is one of the few modern composers many people know by name. His death is now a major headline on news sites from several different countries, too.
- ddrdrck_ 6y agoIn France at least (and in Italia I guess) Morricone is very well known. If you would ask people to cite at least one famous score composer Morricone would probably be cited amongst the first, closely followed by Vladimir Cosma. Actually it is not Morricone public recognition that we should worry about since it is already quite wide, but the fact that he's almost the only Italian composer to get all the fame, while there is so many of them that deserve better recognition, including Morricone collaborators such as Bruno Nicolai and Allessandroni which is responsible for the infamous whistling in Morricone scores.
- jacquesm 6y agoModern Italian composer, Einaudi probably also qualifies. Scarlatti, Puccini, Busoni, Vivaldi, Paganini, etc, the list is quite long.
- _pferreir_ 6y agoI don't agree. Maybe not so much in the US, Morricone is recognized world wide.
- baud147258 6y agoI don't know about you, but he's one of the few composers I knew by name, so he was well-known
- pozdnyshev 6y agoHe’s quite popular and casual film goers would likely know his name.
- balls187 6y agoI suspect it's a cultural and generational thing. These days many Americans can't name the modern composers who score the films they watch. For the generation who grew up with the Fistful series, they probably know Ennio Morricone is extricably linked to Sergio Leone, much in the same way my generation knows John Williams and George Lucas are linked.