Richard Bratby

The Maestro, Ennio Morricone, interviewed: ‘I am a real composer’

Richard Bratby discovered that the pop-cultural phenomenon is actually a major modernist composer hiding in plain sight

issue 27 October 2018

Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian film composer, has died at the age of 91. Here, Richard Bratby spoke to the ‘Maestro’.


Ennio Morricone’s staff wish it to be known that he does not write soundtracks. ‘Maestro Morricone writes “Film Music” NOT “Sound Tracks”’, explain the printed interview guidelines. ‘Maestro Morricone is a composer.

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