Carmine Coppola

This article is about the American musician. For the Italian soccer player of the same name, see Carmine Coppola (soccer player) .

Carmine Coppola (born June 11, 1910 in New York , † April 26, 1991 in Northridge , California ) was an American musician and composer .

Life

Coppola - son of the Italian immigrant Agostino Coppola and his wife Marie - studied music at the New York University of Music. He began his career as a flautist in the orchestra of Radio City Music Hall in 1934 and played in numerous theater orchestras over the next few decades and worked as an arranger of various Broadway shows.

Carmine Coppola has also tried his hand at film composing since the early 1960s, but he only became successful through his son Francis Ford Coppola , who commissioned him to compose the pieces of music that can be seen in the film for his mafia epic The Godfather does not include the world-famous theme song to The Godfather ; this comes from Nino Rota ). (In this film and its two successors, he can be seen in extras as a piano player or conductor.)

In 1975 Carmine Coppola received an Oscar for the music to The Godfather - Part II . Following this success, he also composed the music for Apocalypse Now , The Outsider , The Stone Garden and The Godfather III for his son's films . For Apocalypse Now he received a Golden Globe Award in 1980 .

In 1981 he created a new film music for the reconstructed version of Abel Gance's masterpiece Napoléon (1927), which was performed spectacularly in the early 1980s with symphony orchestras.

Carmine Coppola was married to Italia Coppola. The marriage had the children Francis Ford Coppola , August Coppola (professor of literature at Columbia University in New York and father of Nicholas Coppola ) and Talia Coppola .

Web links

• Carmine Coppola in the Internet Movie Database (English)