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Carmine Coppola (June 11, 1910 - April 26,
1991) was an American composer, editor, musical director, and
songwriter. Coppola was a composer and conductor who contributed to
many of the musical scores in The Godfather, The
Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, and
Apocalypse
Now directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola.
Biography
Personal
life
Coppola was born in New York City, the son of Marie (née Zasa) and Agostino
Coppola. His brother is Maestro Anton Coppola. He was the father of August Coppola,
Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire and
grandfather of Nicolas
Cage, Sofia
Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman. His wife, Italia Coppola,
died in 2004 in Los Angeles. Coppola died in Northridge, California at the age of 80. Upon his death,
Coppola's grandson Robert
Schwartzman changed his last name to 'Carmine' in his
grandfather's honor.
Career
Coppola played the flute. He
studied at Juilliard and later at the Manhattan School of Music.
During the 1940s, Coppola worked under Arturo Toscanini with the NBC
Symphony Orchestra. Then in 1951, Coppola left the Orchestra to
pursue his dream of composing music. During that time he mostly
worked as an orchestra conductor on Broadway and elsewhere, working with
his son, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, on
additional music for his Finian's Rainbow. Later, his
son called him to provide additional music for The
Godfather Part II, in which he and his father received an
in-movie tribute with the characters Agostino and Carmine Coppola,
who appear in a deleted scene from the young Vito Corleone
flashback segments. Together with Nino Rota, Carmine composed music for The Godfather,
and for The Godfather Part II, for which
they won Oscars for Best Score. Carmine then scored
Francis' Apocalypse Now, for which he won a Golden Globe award for best original score.
He also composed three and a half hour score for Francis' 1981
reconstruction of Abel
Gance's 1921 epic Napoleon.
Filmography
- The Godfather Part III
(1990, Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision)
- The Freshman (1990,
Songwriter)
- New
York Stories (Composer (Music Score) / Actor: Street
Musician))
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988, Composer (Music
Score) / Songwriter)
- Blood Red (1989, Composer (Music Score))
- Gardens of Stone (1987, Composer
(Music Score))
- The Outsiders (1983,
Editor/Composer (Music Score))
- Apocalypse
Now (1979, Composer (Music Score))
- The Black Stallion
(1979, Composer (Music Score))
- The Godfather Part II (1974,
Conductor / Composer (Music Score) / Musical
Direction/Supervision)
- The Godfather Part
I (1972, Piano Sequence)
- The People (1971, Composer (Music Score))
- Tonight for Sure (1962, Composer
(Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision)
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