Carmine Coppola

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Personal life

Coppola was born in New York City, the son of Maria (née Zasa) and Agostino Coppola, who immigrated to the United States from Bernalda, Basilicata. Anton Coppola, the opera conductor and composer, was his brother. He was the grandfather of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Robert Schwartzman, and late Gian-Carlo Coppola.

Italia's wife, Italia, died in Los Angeles in 2004. Coppola died in Northridge, California, at the age of 80, in 1991. Both Coppola and his wife are buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

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Career

Coppola played the flute. He studied at Juilliard, then at the Manhattan School of Music, and privately with Joseph Schillinger. Coppola appeared with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1940s, under Arturo Toscanini. Coppola left the Orchestra in 1951 to pursue his dream of composing music. He spent his time as an orchestra conductor on Broadway and elsewhere, associating with his uncle, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, on additional music for his Finian's Rainbow.

Carmine appeared in The Godfather (1972) as a participant in the music scene. Later, his uncle, who died in a deleted scene from the young Vito Corleone flashback segments, requested that he write additional music for his score on The Godfather Part II (1974), in which he and his father received an in-move tribute to Agostino and Carmine Coppola. Nino Rota and Carmine, a principal score composer, received Oscars for their film Best Score. The Godfather Part III (1990) was also composed by him. As a conductor, he made cameo appearances in all three Godfather films.

Carmine and Francis achieved Apocalypse Now (1979), for which they received a Golden Globe Award for best original score. Kevin Brownlow's reconstruction of Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoléon was also a three-and-a-half score for US television shows. Carmine produced the music for The Black Stallion (1979), on which Francis was executive producer, and four other films directed by his son in the 1980s. Francis said in his audio commentary on The Godfather Part III DVD that his father lost a cue during the shooting of the film's first wedding reception, something he never did in his prime. Francis realized that his father had no hours left at that point. Carmine died less than four months after Part III premiered, of a stroke.

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