The Hollywood Reporter once observed: "There aren't many composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a couple of whistled notes".
Morricone has written hundreds of scores for cinema and television, and is one of the only film composers to have received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement.
The first Hollywood blacklist, a list of directors, screenwriters, composers, actors and other film-makers suspected of communist sympathies, was published in 1947.
Some composers use text simply as the catalyst for composition, but most take care to make text comprehensible.
Opera is a cruel medium for composers and writers because you have to get it right so far in advance.
Don't get too depressed in the first stage and orchestra rehearsal, when you hear your favourite line has disappeared Enlightened opera house education departments and music academies occasionally offer short courses – such as the Jerwood opera-writing course run by Aldeburgh Music every four years – which pair up composers new to opera with writers keen to explore the genre.
Mrs Fantlova took the lead female role in a number of cabarets and plays in Terezín, and on 15 October 1944, aged 22, travelled with her mother and little sister in a cattle car to Auschwitz with the great composers themselves: Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása, on what would be their last journey.
"Incredibly, these composers were not known," says Freedman.
"I know it sounds odd," she concludes, "but I feel connected to these composers.
"The fact that people today tend to use too many electronic instruments or amateur composers is because they want to spend less money".
As a result he was much in demand as an interpreter of 20th-century English music, and of two composers' work in particular.
