Ennio Morricone, an Oscar-winning film composer, 91

Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone — known for producing more than 400 scores for feature films, including spaghetti westerns such as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” — died in a Rome hospital on Monday.

The 91-year-old was suffering from health complications after composer,’ I don’t breaking his leg in a mean movie composer,” recent fall, according Tarantino said to his longtime lawyer during the speech. and friend Giorgio “I’m talking about Assumma. Mozart, I’m talking

The Maestro, as he about Beethoven, I’m was known, was credited talking about Schubert.” with reinventing music for Western In a statement Monday, movies during a prolific Italian President career that spanned Sergio Mattarella described several decades and Morricone as a earned him an Oscar “distinguished and for lifetime achievement brilliant artist.” in 2007. “Both a refined and

Morricone (photo) popular musician, he worked closely with left a deep footprint on Italian director Sergio the musical history of Leone on multiple the late 20th century,” films, including “Once Mattarella said. Upon a Time in America” “Through his in 1984 and the soundtracks, he contributed “Dollars” trilogy in the greatly to 1960s: “A Fistful of spreading and Dollars,” “For a Few strengthening Italy’s Dollars More” and prestige in the world.” “The Good, the Bad Morricone’s coyote-howl and the Ugly.” music style became

More recently, he his trademark won an Oscar for best and one of the most original score for easily recognizable Quentin Tarantino’s soundtracks in cinema. 2015 Western “The Hateful Eight.” He also produced The filmmaker, who the scores for “The accepted a Golden Untouchables,” “The Globe for Morricone’s Battle of Algiers,” music in his place in “The Mission,” 2016, called him his “Bugsy,” “Malena” and favorite composer. many others.

“When I say ‘favorite