ROME — Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who made the coyote-howl topic for the legendary Spaghetti Western “The Great, the Undesirable and the Ugly” and the soundtracks this sort of basic Hollywood gangster films as “The Untouchables,” has died. He was 91.

Morricone’s longtime attorney, Giorgio Assumma, mentioned the Maestro, as he was regarded, died early Monday in a Rome healthcare facility of problems pursuing a slide, in which he broke a leg.

All through a job that spanned many years and gained him an Oscar for life span achievement in 2007, Morricone collaborated with some of the most renowned Italian and Hollywood administrators, in flicks including “The Untouchables” by Brian de Palma, “The Hateful Eight” by Quentin Tarantino and “The Fight of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo.

That Tarantino film would also get him the Oscar for best original rating in 2016. In accepting that Academy Award, Morricone explained to the viewers at the ceremony: “There is no wonderful songs without having a excellent film that conjures up it.”

In complete, he produced additional than 400 authentic scores for function movies.

His legendary so-called Spaghetti Western videos noticed him work closely with the late Italian movie director Sergio Leone.

Morricone was identified for crafting just a number of notes, that that played on a harmonica in Leone’s “Once Upon A Time in The united states,” which would be quickly related with that film.