In pursuit of the voice

The music of the great maestro Ennio Morricone accompanied the idea of Western films. He is often considered the greatest and most famous film composer in the world with his creative music for films such as "A Fistful of Dollars," "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," "Once Upon a Time in the West," "Once Upon a Time in America," "The Mission," and "Cinema Paradiso." Morricone spent sixty years renewing the sound of cinema. In "Chasing the Sound," the two composer authors Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa exchange conversations that lasted four years about life, music, and the amazing and unpredictable ways they communicated and influenced each other. In this book, Morricone for the first time opens his creative laboratory to provide a comprehensive and rich description of his life, from his early years of study to distinguished collaborations with the most important Italian and international filmmakers, including Leone, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Tornatore, Malick, Stone, and Polanski. The result was, as Morricone himself defined it, "This book is without a doubt the best written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed, and well-organized. The most truthful." Throughout his long and distinguished career, Ennio Morricone proved to always be one of the most imaginative and exceptional composers in the history of cinema. This book reveals the strong personality behind his magnificent work and will be rewarding for anyone interested in the magic of music in films." John Williams "I absolutely hold great respect for my brother Ennio and will always be one of his biggest fans. When I was studying in France, my teacher Nadia Boulanger always used to say that 'your music can never be more or less than you as a person,' and I truly believe that this is why Ennio's music is so special: he is simply a great human being! Ennio is the perfect definition of the word 'authentic,' and his compositions are like a window into his mind: astonishingly beautiful and genius!" Quincy Jones. Number of pages: 464