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Rome, July 6 (EFE (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) Oscar-winning movie score composer Ennio Morricone has died at the age of 91 in Rome due to complications from a fall suffered in recent days. The Italian musician was known for creating the soundtrack to several Spaghetti Westerns including The Good the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon a Time in America.FOOTAGE OF AND STATEMENTS BY VINCENZO DENARO, DOCTOR EMERITUS IN ORTHOPEDICS AT THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS WHERE MORRICONE DIEDTRANSLATIONS:"In the small details, thinking about how to make his funeral, thinking about the people he would want to invite, he wanted absolutely no publicity.""I talked to him yesterday morning, he talked to me yesterday.""Yes, he has always been lucid, even with his respiratory illness." "He was a great believer, he fantasized about who would be his ally in paradisse, whether it would be Beethoven or Mozart."
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