COMPOSER

Ennio Morricone

1928 - 2020

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Ennio Morricone (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ennio Morricone has received more than 7,520,364 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Ennio Morricone is the 23rd most popular composer (up from 26th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Italy and the 6th most popular Italian Composer.

Ennio Morricone is most famous for his work as a composer for film scores. He has composed music for more than 500 films, including Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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  • 7.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ennio Morricone ranks 23 out of 1,451. Before him are Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Georges Bizet, Claudio Monteverdi, and Igor Stravinsky. After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Jacques Offenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ennio Morricone ranks 6. Before him are Che Guevara, Ariel Sharon, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, and Hosni Mubarak. After him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Noam Chomsky, Agnès Varda, Eduard Shevardnadze, Serge Gainsbourg, and James Watson. Among people deceased in 2020, Ennio Morricone ranks 4. Before him are Diego Maradona, Sean Connery, and Hosni Mubarak. After him are Kirk Douglas, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Pierre Cardin, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Qasem Soleimani, Alan Parker, and Max von Sydow.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ennio Morricone ranks 79 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucrezia Borgia (1480), Vitruvius (-75), Zeno of Elea (-490), Mark Antony (-83), Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (-600), and Giotto (1267). After him are Catherine de' Medici (1519), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Pope Pius V (1504), Pope Pius XI (1857), Benedict of Nursia (480), and Michael Collins (1930).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ennio Morricone ranks 6. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), and Claudio Monteverdi (1567). After him are Guido of Arezzo (991), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Domenico Scarlatti (1685).

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