Carmine Coppola

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

Life

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

Carmine Coppola tried since the early 1960s as a film composer, successful but he was only with the success of his son, Francis Ford Coppola, the Godfather with the composition of those pieces of music whose presentation is seen in the film commissioned him for his mafia epic, (this does not include the world-famous theme tune to the Godfather, this is by Nino Rota ). ( In this movie and its two successors he is seen in extras roles as pianist or conductor. )

1975 Carmine Coppola received for the music to The Godfather - Part II an Oscar. After this success, he also composed for the films of his son the music for Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders and Gardens of Stone. For Apocalypse Now in 1980 he received a Golden Globe Award.

In 1981, he created for the restored version of Abel Gance's masterpiece Napoleon (1927 ), a new soundtrack, which was spectacular listed accompanied by symphony orchestras in the early 1980s.

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