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All the music you associate with westerns came from the same composer. A friend played me an album of his music and all the now-tropey hits were there. I don't remember the composer's name, but it shouldn't be difficult to find. Just blew my mind that it was all one person.
Ennio Morricone
Lets also not forget Morricone's friend and collaborator Bruno Nicolai.
He was every bit as influential to the spaghetti western and Italian movie scene.
Music buff, take a bow.
He was (sadly passed away) a genius in the movie industry! More that 400 movies (including Hateful 8, where Tarantino finally managed to have his original score - and won an Oscar).
Ennio Morricone is imo better than John Williams. He's not just the guy who did Westerns either. He scored the Untouchables, once upon a time in America, the thing, and his final works were with Tarantino for Django and hateful 8. Lots of his music in the kill Bill soundtrack as well. Hell even Metallica uses his song "the ecstasy of gold" to start all their concerts
I think the score for Cinema Paradiso is probably also up there among the best.
I believe that Tarantino wanted Morricone's music for very long, and used existing musics for Django and other movies, but he finally managed to have original scores for Hateful 8 (which won the Oscar).
The score for "The Mission" is another absolutely cracking one.
Wow, an even greater titan in the industry. That's just so much awesome.