List of compositions by Ennio Morricone

This is a list of compositions by composer, orchestrator and conductor Ennio Morricone. He composed and arranged scores for more than 400 film and television productions. Morricone was considered one of the most influential and best-selling film composers since the late 1940s.

He has sold well over 70 million records worldwide, including 6.5 million albums and singles in France, over three million in the United States and more than two million albums in Korea.

In 1971, the composer received his first golden record (disco d'oro) for the sale of 1,000,000 records in Italy and a "Targa d'Oro" for the worldwide sales of 22 million.

His score for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the top 5 best-selling original instrumental scores in the world today, with about 10 million copies sold.

His score for The Mission (1986) was also at one point the world's best selling score. Morricone's music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Le Professionnel (1981) each sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

Filmography

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Television films and series

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Stage productions

• Il Lieto fine (Luciano Salce, 1959)
• Il Pappa Reale (Luciano Salce, 1960)
• Non approfondire (Enzo Trapani, 1961)
• La Chasse aux corbeaux (Anton Giulio Majano, 1962)
• Rascelinaria (Pietro Garinei, Sandro Giovannini, 1962)
• Filumena Marturano (2010)

Radio productions

• Ventimila leghe sotto i mari (Francesco Ghedini, 1961)
• Tiempe d'ammore (Fausto Cigliano, Achille Millo, 1961)

Advertising campaigns

Since 1984, Ennio Morricone composed original background music to several advertising campaigns. Most of the commercials were directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Selected films with music by Morricone

Classic (absolute) music

Ennio Morricone's classical compositions include over 15 piano concertos, a trumpet concerto, 30 symphonic pieces, choral music, one opera and one mass. His first classical pieces date back to the late forties.

Live albums

• Ennio Morricone live (with Metropole Orchestra) (1987)
• Concerto Premio Nino Rota (1995)
• Ennio Morricone – Live (1995)
• Morricone dirige a Morricone (1998)
• Cinema Concerto: Ennio Morricone at Santa Cecilia (1999)
• Verona Arena Concerto (2002)
• La leggenda della pianista (2003)
• Focus: Ennio Morricone & Dulce Pontes (2004)
• Voci dal silenzio (2004)
• Morricone Conducts Morricone: The Munich Concert 2004 (2006)
• Note di Pace/Peace Notes: Live at Piazza San Marco, Venice (2008)
• Giorgio Armani presents Musica per il cinema (2CD)(2012)

Studio albums

with Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza

• 1966 "Nuova Consonanza", LP RCA
• 1967 "The Private Sea of Dreams" (as Il Gruppo), LP RCA Victor
• 1968 "Improvisationen" LP Deutsche Grammophon
• 1970 "The Feed-back" (as The Group), LP RCA
• 1973 "Improvvisazioni a Formazioni Variate" (also known as "Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza"), LP General Music
• 1975 "Nuova Consonanza", LP Cinevox Records. Reissue 2007 CD Bella Casa
• 1976 "Musica su Schemi", LP Cramps Records. Reissue 2002: LP Get Back, CD Ampersand
• 1992 "1967–1975", CD Edition RZ
• 2006 "Azioni", CD Die Schachtel
• 2010 "Niente", CD Cometa Edizioni Musicali. Reissue 2012 LP The Omni Recording Corporation/The Roundtable
• 2011 "Eroina", CD Cometa Edizioni Musicali

with Mauro Maur

• La Tromba Classica Contemporanea (1993, Mauro Maur & Ennio Morricone)
• In the Line of Fire (1993, Mauro Maur & Ennio Morricone)
• Mauro Maur e i suoi Solisti (1996, Mauro Maur & Ennio Morricone)

with Chico Buarque

• Per un pugno di samba (1970, Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone)
• Sonho de um Carnaval (2000, Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone)
• De sa terra a su xelu (2002, Clara Murtas & Ennio Morricone)

other

• Focus (2003, Ennio Morricone & Dulce Pontes)
• Guardians of the clouds (2007, Carel Kraayenhof & Ennio Morricone)
• Paradiso (2011, Hayley Westenra & Ennio Morricone)
• Morricone.Uncovered (2012, Romina Arena & Ennio Morricone)
• Morricone 60 (2016, Ennio Morricone & Czech National Symphony Orchestra)

Selected compilations

Remix albums

• Ennio Morricone Remixes Vol.1 - 3-LP / CD (2003)
• Ennio Morricone Remixes Vol.2 - 3-LP (2 CD) (2004)
• Ennio Morricone Remixes - limited 7

Box sets

• Ennio Morricone Chronicles 1959-1999 (1999, 10 CD Box)
• Io (2003, 4CD Box)
• Ennio Morricone OST (2003, 4CD Box)
• Mondo Morricone: The Trilogy (2004, 3CD Box)
• Ultimate Morricone Collection (2006, 24CD Box)
• The Complete Dollars Trilogy (2008, 4CD Box)
• The Complete Edition (2008, 15CD Box)

DVDs

• Man & His Music (2004)
• Morricone conducts Morricone (2006)
• Arena Concerto (2007)
• Peace Notes: Live in Venice (2008)

Tribute albums

Selected songs

All music composed by Ennio Morricone, lyrics written by various artists.

Other song compositions

1961 – Faccio finta di dormire and Cicciona cha cha by Edoardo Vianello (lyrics by Carlo Rossi)

1962 – Quello che conta by Luigi Tenco (lyrics by Luciano Salce)

1963 – Pel di carota by Rita Pavone (lyrics by Franco Migliacci)

1963 – Nel corso by Gino Paoli (lyrics by Lina Wertmüller)

1963 – Ti ho conosciuto by Rita Pavone

1964 – Lonesome Billy by Peter Tevis

1964 – Domani prendo il primo treno by Paul Anka

1965 – L'amore gira by Rosy

1965 – Penso a te by Catherine Spaak

1965 – Le cose più importanti by Pierfilippi

1965 – Ho messo gli occhi su di te by Dino & Anna Moffo

1965 – Questi vent'anni miei by Catherine Spaak

1966 – Uccellacci e uccellini by Domenico Modugno

1967 – Vai via malinconia by Maysa Matarazzo

1968 – Scirocco by Renato Rascel

1968 – Canzone della libertà by Sergio Endrigo

1968 – Filastrocca vietnamita by Sergio Endrigo

1969 – Una breve stagione by Sergio Endrigo

1971 – Ho visto un film by Gianni Morandi

1989 – Libera l'amore by Zucchero

All songs composed by Ennio Morricone, lyrics written by various artists.

Selected music certifications

References

External links

• Official website
• Ennio Morricone at Soundtrackguide.net
• Ennio Morricone (Unofficial) Fans Club
• The Ennio Morricone Fanpage
• Ennio Morricone Myspace
• The Ennio Morricone Online Community
• Ennio Morricone Japanese website
• Ennio Morricone at IMDb
• Ennio Morricone Discography at SoundtrackCollector.com