Mauro Maur, OMRI is an Italian trumpeter and composer. He has collaborated alongside musicians such as Ennio Morricone, Placido Domingo, Uto Ughi, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, and Pierre Boulez.
Mauro Maur
Maur (left) and Ennio Morricone in the famous recording studio "Forum Music Village", circa 1970s
Personal Dedicace from Ennio Morricone to Mauro Maur: "To Mauro Maur with the highest esteem as a person and as an artist. Ennio Morricone" (A Mauro Maur con la più alta stima come persona e come artista. Ennio Morricone)
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Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.
Morricone in 2007
Goffredo Petrassi, Morricone's teacher
Morricone in 1978 with Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
Ennio Morricone while recording a soundtrack with his favorite trumpet player and friend Mauro Maur – Forum Studios in Rome