Hans Zimmer leads tributes to fellow composer Ennio Morricone
Hans Zimmer has paid tribute to his fellow movie score composer Ennio Morricone, who has died at the age of 91.Morricone, who penned the scores to more than 500 films, including many of Sergio Leone‘s seminal spaghetti westerns like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, passed away during the early hours of the morning on Monday (July 6, 2020) after being hospitalized with a fractured femur last week, his lawyer Giorgio Assumma confirmed in a statement to The Guardian.Assumma said his client, “died at dawn on 6 July in Rome with the comfort of faith.