Carmine Valentino Coppola was an American composer, flautist, pianist, and songwriter who contributed original music to The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, and The Godfather Part III, all directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola.
11 Facts About Carmine Coppola
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Carmine Coppola's brother was opera conductor and composer Anton Coppola.
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Carmine Coppola died in Northridge, California, at the age of 80 in 1991.
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Carmine Coppola studied at Juilliard, later at the Manhattan School of Music and privately with Joseph Schillinger.
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Carmine Coppola contributed to the music performed in the wedding scene in The Godfather.
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Later, his son called on him to compose additional music for the score of 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.
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Principal score composer Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola together won Oscars for Best Score for the film.
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Carmine Coppola composed most of the score for The Godfather Part III.
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Carmine Coppola made cameo appearances in all three Godfather films as a conductor.
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Carmine Coppola composed a three-and-a-half-hour score for US showings of Kevin Brownlow's reconstruction of Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoleon.
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Carmine Coppola composed the music for The Black Stallion, on which Francis was executive producer, and four other films directed by his son in the 1980s.