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ENNIO
MORRICONE
WORDS DARIO POLI
MAESTRO OF OUR TIMES
PALESTRINA TO MORRICONE – TWO ROMAN ICONS Ennio Morricone, (born November 10, 1928) was an Italian composer and conductor who died on the 6th July 2020 aged 91. On that day, the world lost the greatest, most original, versatile,
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creative, composer and musician in a century, surpassing other talented musicians by leagues with his unique innovations. We’ll never see his like again and I am sad to feel his passing, but blessed to have been living while his genius was flowing out to all of us. Ennio Morricone is the musician of
