Editing Ennio Morricone (section)

====First film scores====

After graduation in 1954, Morricone started to write and arrange music as a [[ghost writing|ghost writer]] for films credited to already well-known composers, while also arranging for many light music orchestras of the RAI television network, working especially with [[Armando Trovajoli]], [[Alessandro Cicognini]], and [[Carlo Savina]]. He occasionally adopted Anglicized pseudonyms, such as '''Dan Savio''' and '''Leo Nichols'''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.elcorreo.com/butaca/cine/morricone-cuelga-batuta-20190108124758-ntrc.html |title=Morricone cuelga la batuta |first=Oskar |last=Belategui |date=8 January 2019 |access-date=13 June 2019 |newspaper=[[El Correo]] |language=es |publisher=[[Vocento]]}}</ref>

In 1959, Morricone was the conductor (and uncredited co-composer) for [[Mario Nascimbene]]'s score to ''Morte di un amico'' (''[[Death of a Friend]]''), an Italian drama directed by [[Franco Rossi (director)|Franco Rossi]]. In the same year, he composed music for the theatre show ''Il lieto fine'' by [[Luciano Salce]].

1961 marked his real film debut with Luciano Salce's ''[[The Fascist|Il Federale (The Fascist)]]''. In an interview with American composer [[Fred Karlin]], Morricone discussed his beginnings, stating, "My first films were light comedies or costume movies that required simple musical scores that were easily created, a genre that I never completely abandoned even when I went on to much more important films with major directors".<ref name="Biography of Ennio Morricone">{{cite web |url=http://ennio-morricone.com/#/biography.html |title=Biography of Ennio Morricone |publisher=ennio-morricone.com |access-date=22 January 2013 |archive-date=5 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105110247/http://ennio-morricone.com/#/biography.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

With ''Il Federale'' Morricone began a long-run collaboration with Luciano Salce. In 1962, Morricone composed the jazz-influenced score for Salce's comedy ''[[Crazy Desire|La voglia matta (Crazy Desire)]]''. That year Morricone also arranged Italian singer [[Edoardo Vianello]]'s summer hit "Pinne, fucile, e occhiali", a cha-cha song, peppered with added water effects, unusual instrumental sounds and unexpected stops and starts.<ref>{{cite book |author=Enrico Deregibus |title=Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBko1XW9KOUC&pg=PA464 |access-date=22 January 2013 |date=8 October 2010 |publisher=Enrico Deregibus |isbn=978-88-09-75625-0}}</ref>

Morricone wrote works for the concert hall in a more avant-garde style.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Petridis |first1=Alexis|author-link=Alexis Petridis|title=Ennio Morricone: 10 of his greatest compositions |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/06/ennio-morricone-10-of-his-greatest-compositions |access-date=6 July 2020|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Some of these have been recorded, such as ''Ut'', a trumpet concerto dedicated to [[Mauro Maur]].<ref>{{cite book |title=La Tromba |oclc=36806200 }}</ref>