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''For the Italian footballer see Carmine Coppola (footballer)''
'Carmine Coppola' (June 11, 1910 - April 26, 1991) was an Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Bafta Award-nominated 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''.

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History

Death

Selected filmography

See also

External links

History

Coppola was born in New York City. He is the father of August and Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire and grandfather of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. His wife, Italia Coppola, died in 2004 in Los Angeles.
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. 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.
Upon his death, Coppola's grandson Robert Schwartzman changed his last name to 'Carmine' in his grandfather's honor.

Death

Carmine Coppola died in Northridge, California at the age of 80.

Selected 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))

★ '' (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 People'' (1971, Composer (Music Score))

★ ''Tonight for Sure'' (1979, Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision)

See also

★ Coppola family tree

External links

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★ The Black Stallion By Gary S Dalkin

★ Soundtrack BY MSN Music

★ Find-A-Grave profile for Carmine Coppola