My top 3 for film/tv music is Ennio, Nino Rota and Murray Gold.
Well, using a countertenor in "Vale Decem" alone would put him there for me. Countertenors really have a renaissance lately.
Someone else may own the maestro...Ennio Morricone sued as guitarist's daughter seeks a few euros moreDispute over who played guitar on composer's soundtracks for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns to go to court in Rome Tom Kington in Rome guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 May 2013 13.41 EDT Rarely have a few notes on a reverb-drenched guitar defined an entire film genre, but half a century on, the twangy riffs of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks are for many the perfect expression of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns.Which is why an Italian woman is suing for the €800,000 she says is due to her father, who she claims played those notes for Morricone but never received full credit.Maria Rucher says her father, Pino Rucher, who died 17 years ago, played solos on the soundtracks of all three of Leone's seminal westerns starring Clint Eastwood – A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – which were made by the Italian director between 1964 and 1966...http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/ennio-morricone-sued-guitarist-daughter