Oscar-Winning Film Composer Ennio Morricone Dies at 91

Oscar-Winning Film Composer Ennio Morricone Dies at 91
Italian composer Ennio Morricone arrives at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on Feb. 25, 2007. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
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ROME—Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” helped define a cinematic era, has died Italian news agency ANSA said on Monday. He was 91.

Ansa said Morricone had broken his femur some days ago and died during the night in a clinic in Rome.