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Carmine Coppola

1910 - 1991

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Carmine Valentino Coppola (Italian: [ˈkarmine ˈkɔppola]; June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991) was an American composer, flautist, pianist, and songwriter who contributed original music to the films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Black Stallion, and The Godfather Part III. He is the father of film director Francis Ford Coppola. In the course of his career, he won both the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, with BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media nominations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carmine Coppola is the 694th most popular composer (down from 515th in 2019), the 3,787th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,386th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carmine Coppola ranks 694 out of 1,451Before him are Alonso Mudarra, Jakov Gotovac, Jerome Kern, Maurice Emmanuel, Josip Runjanin, and Augusta Holmès. After him are Xavier Cugat, Tielman Susato, Orazio Vecchi, Riccardo Zandonai, Maxim Berezovsky, and Norbert Burgmüller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Carmine Coppola ranks 132Before him are Heinz Hoffmann, Howlin' Wolf, Richard Conte, Pierre Bézier, Rachel Kempson, and Scatman Crothers. After him are Yusof Ishak, Helene Mayer, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Heinrich Sutermeister, Robert B. Anderson, and Jorge Negrete. Among people deceased in 1991, Carmine Coppola ranks 97Before him are Andrzej Panufnik, Yasushi Inoue, Schubert Gambetta, Mikheil Meskhi, Gino Colaussi, and Richard Thorpe. After him are Artur Lundkvist, Giacomo Manzù, Otl Aicher, Zino Francescatti, Franco Maria Malfatti, and Mario Scelba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carmine Coppola ranks 3,787 out of 20,380Before him are Jim Thompson (1906), Gina Gershon (1962), Richard Roundtree (1942), William Baldwin (1963), Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961), and Mel Blanc (1908). After him are Calista Flockhart (1964), Eric Singer (1958), Marie Laveau (1801), Jim Garrison (1921), William Windom (1827), and Seymour Hersh (1937).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Carmine Coppola ranks 39Before him are Ernest Guiraud (1837), James Scott (1885), Stephen Foster (1826), Alex North (1910), Basil Poledouris (1945), and Jerome Kern (1885). After him are Lee Konitz (1927), Sun Ra (1914), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Edward MacDowell (1860), Dave Grusin (1934), and Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884).